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 1979 / Served to 1986

Fred A. Blanche Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Fred A. Blanche Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1979. He previously served on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–1997
Tenure: 1979–1986 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–
1979	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Blanche authored 839 published opinions for the court (1969–1986), plus 50 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Smith (1,543 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. 354 of these were attributed to Blanche 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
1983	State v. Smith	433 So. 2d 688	1,543
1983	State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King	436 So. 2d 559	1,160
1982	State v. Duncan	420 So. 2d 1105	948
1984	State v. Wright	445 So. 2d 1198	580
1983	State v. Smith	430 So. 2d 31	366
1980	Sinitiere v. Lavergne	391 So. 2d 821	254
1980	Smith v. Cajun Insulation, Inc.	392 So. 2d 398	232
1984	State v. Vessell	450 So. 2d 938	226
1983	Ray v. Alexandria Mall	434 So. 2d 1083	214
1985	McDill v. Utica Mut. Ins. Co.	475 So. 2d 1085	211
1985	State v. Wilson	467 So. 2d 503	195
1986	Berry v. Holston Well Service, Inc.	488 So. 2d 934	182
1980	State v. Holmes	388 So. 2d 722	174
1981	State v. Lindsey	404 So. 2d 466	170
1983	State v. Johnson	438 So. 2d 1091	161

Showing the 15 most-cited of 901 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 Fred A. Blanche Jr. on?: Fred A. Blanche Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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7 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).