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 1998 / Active

Harmon Drew Jr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Harmon Drew Jr. is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Drew authored 1,230 published opinions for the court (1930–2017), plus 18 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Hamilton v. Lee (49 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. 379 of these were attributed to Drew 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
1932	Hamilton v. Lee	144 So. 249	49
1939	Dandridge v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York	192 So. 887	39
2007	State v. Zeigler	968 So. 2d 875	37
2010	State v. Dillard†	55 So. 3d 56	34
1944	Lee v. International Paper Co.	16 So. 2d 679	34
2017	Franklin v. Dick†	224 So. 3d 1130	33
2011	State v. Watson†	73 So. 3d 471	31
1999	Dumas v. Angus Chemical Co.	742 So. 2d 655	31
1939	Hardtner v. &198tna Casualty Surety Co.	189 So. 365	31
2012	State v. Hill†	106 So. 3d 617	30
2009	Tillman v. Eldridge†	17 So. 3d 69	30
2004	Young v. Sanders	870 So. 2d 1126	29
1942	Cole v. Sherrill	7 So. 2d 205	28
2011	Dowdy v. City of Monroe· Dissent†	78 So. 3d 791	26
2014	State v. Williams†	149 So. 3d 462	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,266 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 Harmon Drew Jr. on?: Harmon Drew Jr. is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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28 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).