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 1995 / Active

Gay Gaskins

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Gay Gaskins is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Centenary College

Judicial Record

In our data, Gaskins authored 316 published opinions for the court (1996–2012), plus 10 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Curtis v. Curtis (48 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. 255 of these were attributed to Gaskins 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	Curtis v. Curtis	680 So. 2d 1327	48
1996	State v. Jasper	677 So. 2d 553	43
1996	State v. Wilson	679 So. 2d 963	32
2002	Mount Mariah Baptist Church, Inc. v. Pannell's Associated Electric, Inc.†	835 So. 2d 880	31
2000	Hinson v. Glen Oak Retirement Home	774 So. 2d 1134	30
1996	State v. McCray	679 So. 2d 543	30
2005	State v. Garner	913 So. 2d 874	27
2004	State v. Barakat	877 So. 2d 223	27
1997	State v. Evans	700 So. 2d 1039	26
2010	State v. Gipson†	34 So. 3d 1090	25
2009	Koenig v. Christus Schumpert Health System†	12 So. 3d 1037	23
1996	Parker v. Centenary Heritage Manor	677 So. 2d 568	21
2008	Hudson v. Progressive Security Insurance Co.	1 So. 3d 627	20
2007	State ex rel. C.M.M. v. T.P.M.†	957 So. 2d 330	20
1999	Taylor v. Columbian Chemicals	744 So. 2d 704	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 331 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 is Gay Gaskins on?: Gay Gaskins is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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31 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).