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 1991 / Active

Henry Brown

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Henry Brown is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1991 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 763 published opinions for the court (1991–2026), plus 68 dissents and 63 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Eason (285 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. 737 of these were attributed to Brown 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
2009	State v. Eason· Concurrence†	3 So. 3d 685	285
1996	State v. Powell	677 So. 2d 1008	115
2008	State v. Germany	981 So. 2d 792	79
2011	State v. Diaz†	81 So. 3d 228	78
1992	State v. Powell	598 So. 2d 454	69
1994	State v. Jackson	641 So. 2d 1081	62
1997	State v. Ingram	688 So. 2d 657	45
1998	Conagra Poultry Co. v. Collingsworth	705 So. 2d 1280	38
1997	Gould v. Gould	687 So. 2d 685	38
2017	State v. Bass†	223 So. 3d 1242	34
1995	State v. Tatum	661 So. 2d 657	34
1993	State v. Essex	618 So. 2d 574	34
1995	Davis v. Jones Baldwin Music Co.	662 So. 2d 803	33
1993	State v. Perry	612 So. 2d 986	33
2009	Argonaut Great Central Insurance v. Hammett†	13 So. 3d 1209	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 894 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 Henry Brown on?: Henry Brown is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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35 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).