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 1991 / Served to 1992

Elora Fink

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Elora Fink was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–1992 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fink authored 29 published opinions for the court (1991–1992). Most cited: Moore v. Healthcare Elmwood, Inc. (90 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. 13 of these were attributed to Fink 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
1991	Moore v. Healthcare Elmwood, Inc.	582 So. 2d 871	90
1991	State v. Pittman	585 So. 2d 591	31
1992	State v. Williams	593 So. 2d 753	17
1991	Clulee v. Louisiana Materials Co., Inc.	590 So. 2d 780	16
1992	State ex rel. Dept. of Transportation & Development v. Scramuzza†	594 So. 2d 517	15
1991	Hyde v. Hibernia Nat. Bank	584 So. 2d 1181	14
1991	Bays v. Estate of Zeringue	584 So. 2d 715	9
1992	Tracy v. Travelers Ins. Companies	594 So. 2d 541	8
1992	Korson v. Independence Mall I, Ltd.	593 So. 2d 981	7
1991	Williams v. Louisiana Power & Light Co.	590 So. 2d 786	7
1992	Parish of Jefferson v. Tassin	594 So. 2d 525	4
1992	STATE, THROUGH DOTD v. Scramuzza	594 So. 2d 521	4
1991	State v. Gray	589 So. 2d 1135	4
1991	Ventura v. Cox Cable Jefferson Parish	583 So. 2d 1237	4
1992	STATE EX REL. DOTD v. Scramuzza	594 So. 2d 517	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 29 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 was Elora Fink on?: Elora Fink was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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1 year 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).