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 1982 / Served to 2007

Fred Sexton Jr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Fred Sexton Jr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–2007 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Sexton authored 468 published opinions for the court (1982–2007), plus 11 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Davis (97 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. 193 of these were attributed to Sexton 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
1996	State v. Davis	672 So. 2d 428	97
1994	State v. Thompson	631 So. 2d 555	86
1993	State v. Daniels	614 So. 2d 97	73
1986	State v. Jacobs	493 So. 2d 766	66
1996	State v. Ellis	677 So. 2d 617	50
1987	Higginbotham v. Ouachita Parish Police Jury	513 So. 2d 537	48
1985	State v. Nelson	467 So. 2d 1159	48
1995	Warlick v. Warlick	661 So. 2d 706	42
1991	Lindsey v. Poole	579 So. 2d 1145	42
1994	Graham v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.	643 So. 2d 352	39
1994	State v. Ford	643 So. 2d 293	38
1983	Carroway v. Carroway	441 So. 2d 494	38
1992	State v. Hamilton	594 So. 2d 1376	37
1990	Potvin v. Wright's Sound Gallery, Inc.	568 So. 2d 623	37
1992	Starnes v. Caddo Parish School Bd.	598 So. 2d 472	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 489 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 Fred Sexton Jr. on?: Fred Sexton Jr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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25 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).