How do judges of the Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1997 / Active

Elizabeth Pickett

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Elizabeth Pickett is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pickett authored 566 published opinions for the court (1970–2019), plus 20 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Town of Brusly v. WEST BATON ROUGE PAR. POLICE JURY (50 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 318 of these were attributed to Pickett by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1973	Town of Brusly v. WEST BATON ROUGE PAR. POLICE JURY	283 So. 2d 288	50
2008	Riggs v. OPELOUSAS GENERAL HOSP. TRUST	997 So. 2d 814	46
2003	Central Lumber Co. v. Duhon	860 So. 2d 591	46
2008	State v. H.J.L.†	999 So. 2d 338	45
2008	State v. Baker	986 So. 2d 682	43
1973	Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Guglielmo	276 So. 2d 720	33
2003	Weingartner v. Louisiana IceGators	854 So. 2d 898	29
2009	State v. George	19 So. 3d 614	28
2005	Monceaux v. R & R CONST., INC.	919 So. 2d 795	27
2002	Piccione v. Piccione	824 So. 2d 427	27
2009	State v. C.S.D.†	4 So. 3d 204	25
2006	State v. Thibodeaux	924 So. 2d 1205	25
2005	State v. Joseph	916 So. 2d 378	24
1973	Addison v. Travelers Insurance Company	281 So. 2d 805	24
2007	State v. Richards	956 So. 2d 160	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 599 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Elizabeth Pickett on?: Elizabeth Pickett is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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29 years on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).