How do judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1980 / Served to 2001

Harry T. Lemmon

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Harry T. Lemmon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1980–2001 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lemmon authored 859 published opinions for the court (1978–2001), plus 108 dissents and 287 concurrences. Most cited: Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp. (1,729 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. 475 of these were attributed to Lemmon 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
1993	Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp.	623 So. 2d 1257	1,729
1992	State v. Hearold	603 So. 2d 731	1,329
1984	State v. Captville	448 So. 2d 676	1,196
1994	Smith v. Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Inc.· Concurrence†	639 So. 2d 730	1,009
1983	State v. Sutton	436 So. 2d 471	730
1993	Everything on Wheels Subaru, Inc. v. Subaru South, Inc.	616 So. 2d 1234	596
1987	State v. Jacobs	504 So. 2d 817	560
1982	Kent v. Gulf States Utilities Co.	418 So. 2d 493	365
1986	State v. Fraser	484 So. 2d 122	356
1985	State v. Counterman	475 So. 2d 336	310
1990	Fowler v. Roberts	556 So. 2d 1	293
1990	State v. Wille	559 So. 2d 1321	269
1999	Williams v. Rush Masonry, Inc.	737 So. 2d 41	260
1984	State v. Fuller	454 So. 2d 119	241
1982	State Ex Rel. Elaire v. Blackburn	424 So. 2d 246	236

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,255 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 was Harry T. Lemmon on?: Harry T. Lemmon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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20 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).