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 1987 / Served to 2005

Frank Foil

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Frank Foil was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2005 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Foil authored 257 published opinions for the court (1987–2004), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Wisner v. Illinois Cent. Gulf RR (41 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. 120 of these were attributed to Foil 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
1988	Wisner v. Illinois Cent. Gulf RR	537 So. 2d 740	41
1998	Butz v. Lynch	710 So. 2d 1171	40
2003	Norfolk Southern Corp. v. Calif. Union Ins.	859 So. 2d 167	35
1997	Lambert v. RIVERBOAT GAMING ENFORC. DIV.	706 So. 2d 172	33
1995	Bailey v. Martin Brower Co.	658 So. 2d 1299	24
1995	State in Interest of EG	657 So. 2d 1094	23
1998	Cooper v. United Southern Assurance Co.	718 So. 2d 1029	22
2003	Klein v. American Life & Cas. Co.	858 So. 2d 527	21
2003	Simoneaux v. Amoco Production Co.	860 So. 2d 560	19
1998	Richey v. Fetty	715 So. 2d 1	19
1988	Wallace v. Upjohn Co.	535 So. 2d 1110	19
1988	Godwin v. Godwin	533 So. 2d 1009	19
1998	De Nunez v. Bartels	727 So. 2d 463	18
1997	Best Fishing, Inc. v. Rancatore	706 So. 2d 161	18
1988	State v. Parker	536 So. 2d 459	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 264 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 Frank Foil on?: Frank Foil was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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18 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).