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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1945 / Served to 1968

Frank W. HAWTHORNE

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Frank W. HAWTHORNE was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1986
Tenure: 1945–1968 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, HAWTHORNE authored 635 published opinions for the court (1944–1967), plus 136 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: Gaspard v. LeMaire (710 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. 410 of these were attributed to HAWTHORNE 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
1963	Gaspard v. LeMaire· Separate†	158 So. 2d 149	710
1967	Lomenick v. Schoeffler	200 So. 2d 127	324
1952	Hill v. Richey	59 So. 2d 434	133
1951	Benoit v. Hunt Tool Co.	53 So. 2d 137	123
1950	West v. Monroe Bakery, Inc.· Dissent†	46 So. 2d 122	121
1962	Leggett v. Northwestern State College	140 So. 2d 5	108
1948	Koob v. Cooperative Cab Co.	35 So. 2d 849	104
1947	State v. Truby	29 So. 2d 758	102
1961	Day v. National US Radiator Corporation	128 So. 2d 660	101
1963	Wise v. Prescott	151 So. 2d 356	96
1967	State v. Andrus	199 So. 2d 867	95
1945	State v. Dorsey	22 So. 2d 273	92
1963	Pilie v. National Food Stores of Louisiana, Inc.	158 So. 2d 162	87
1963	In Re Ackenhausen	154 So. 2d 380	84
1965	Taylor v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance· Dissent†	178 So. 2d 238	83

Showing the 15 most-cited of 834 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 Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Frank W. HAWTHORNE on?: Frank W. HAWTHORNE was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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