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 1986 / Served to 1987

Garland Pavy

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Garland Pavy was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–1987 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pavy authored 53 published opinions for the court (1975–1987). Most cited: Williams v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (42 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. 3 of these were attributed to Pavy 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
1976	Williams v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company	327 So. 2d 462	42
1976	Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc.	330 So. 2d 649	32
1976	Lambert v. Heirs of Adams	325 So. 2d 331	32
1975	Ford Motor Credit Company v. Soileau	323 So. 2d 221	32
1976	Thompson v. Natchitoches Parish Hosp. Serv. Dist.	335 So. 2d 81	29
1976	Duhon v. Saloom	323 So. 2d 202	28
1975	Guillory v. Morein Motor Company, Inc.	322 So. 2d 375	26
1975	Horn v. Vancouver Plywood Co.	322 So. 2d 816	26
1976	Duhon v. PROF ERNY'S MUSIC CO. INC.	328 So. 2d 788	23
1976	Jordan v. LeBlanc & Broussard Ford, Inc.	332 So. 2d 534	23
1976	Barber v. Testa	331 So. 2d 139	20
1976	Baer v. Simon	334 So. 2d 796	19
1976	Savoy v. Action Products Company, Inc.	324 So. 2d 921	18
1976	Ingram v. Freeman	326 So. 2d 565	17
1976	Jack v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York	326 So. 2d 584	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 53 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 Garland Pavy on?: Garland Pavy was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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1 year 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).