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 1943 / Served to 1967

George W. Hardy Jr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

George W. Hardy Jr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1967
Tenure: 1943–1967 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Virginia Military Institute

Judicial Record

In our data, Hardy authored 1,245 published opinions for the court (1930–1967), plus 15 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Roberts v. MS Carroll Co. (87 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. 799 of these were attributed to Hardy 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
1953	Roberts v. MS Carroll Co.	68 So. 2d 689	87
1957	Miller v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co.	99 So. 2d 511	52
1967	Jennings v. Ralston Purina Company	201 So. 2d 168	44
1960	Nomey v. Great American Indemnity Company	121 So. 2d 763	43
1959	James v. Rapides Parish Police Jury†	113 So. 2d 88	43
1946	Butler v. O'Neal	26 So. 2d 753	43
1949	Lynch v. Fisher	41 So. 2d 692	41
1947	Lynch v. Fisher	34 So. 2d 513	39
1962	Beatty v. Vining	147 So. 2d 37	38
1944	Mercer v. Tremont G. Ry. Co.	19 So. 2d 270	38
1965	Evans v. Thorpe	175 So. 2d 418	33
1960	Josey v. Granite State Fire Insurance Company	122 So. 2d 303	33
1951	Churchman v. Ingram	56 So. 2d 297	33
1957	Paggett v. Travelers Indemnity Company	99 So. 2d 173	30
1954	Harris v. Travelers Indemnity Co. of Hartford, Conn.	70 So. 2d 235	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,280 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 George W. Hardy Jr. on?: George W. Hardy Jr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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24 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).