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 1931 / Served to 1944

Frederick M. Odom

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Frederick M. Odom was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1931. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1871 · age 155
Tenure: 1931–1944 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1931	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Odom authored 590 published opinions for the court (1930–1944), plus 43 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Jackson v. Cook (273 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. 25 of these were attributed to Odom 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
1938	Jackson v. Cook	181 So. 195	273
1935	Rottman v. Beverly	165 So. 153	230
1939	Muse v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.	192 So. 72	173
1933	Houghton v. Hall· Dissent	148 So. 37	111
1936	Reeves v. Globe Indemnity Co. of New York· Dissent	168 So. 488	93
1942	State v. Vinzant	7 So. 2d 917	92
1940	State v. Henry· Concurrence	198 So. 910	82
1940	Carlino v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.	199 So. 228	81
1938	Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co. v. Parker Oil Co.	183 So. 229	70
1931	Lorance v. Smith	138 So. 871	67
1933	Smith v. Chappell	148 So. 242	61
1939	Cotton v. Wright	190 So. 665	60
1941	Puchner v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corp.· Dissent	5 So. 2d 288	57
1940	Shreveport Long Leaf Lumber Co. v. Wilson	197 So. 566	57
1933	Louisiana Highway Commission v. Guidry	146 So. 1	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 668 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 Frederick M. Odom on?: Frederick M. Odom was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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13 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).