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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 2009 / Active

Greg Gerard Guidry

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Greg Gerard Guidry is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1961 · age 65
Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Guidry authored 313 published opinions for the court (1957–2026), plus 48 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Campbell (844 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. 210 of these were attributed to Guidry 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
1981	State v. Campbell	404 So. 2d 1205	844
2011	Schultz v. Guoth†	57 So. 3d 1002	247
2013	Broussard v. State ex rel. Office of State Buildings· Dissent†	113 So. 3d 175	216
2014	Roy Bufkin, Jr. v. Felipe's Louisiana, LLC· Concurrence†	171 So. 3d 851	206
2012	Smitko v. Gulf South Shrimp, Inc.†	94 So. 3d 750	194
2010	Cheramie Services, Inc. v. Shell Deepwater Production, Inc.· Concurrence†	35 So. 3d 1053	190
2009	State v. Hunt	25 So. 3d 746	145
2010	Brewer v. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.· Concurrence†	35 So. 3d 230	140
2009	Arias v. Stolthaven New Orleans, L.L.C.	9 So. 3d 815	135
2011	Taranto v. Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.· Dissent†	62 So. 3d 721	114
2013	Ogea v. Merritt· Concurrence†	130 So. 3d 888	98
2011	Eagle Pipe and Supply, Inc. v. Amerada Hess Corporation· Concurrence†	79 So. 3d 246	97
2012	Bernard v. Ellis· Dissent†	111 So. 3d 995	96
2010	S.J. v. Lafayette Parish School Board	41 So. 3d 1119	90
2017	Danielle Larson v. Xyz Insurance Company· Concurrence†	226 So. 3d 412	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 403 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 is Greg Gerard Guidry on?: Greg Gerard Guidry is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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17 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).