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 1982 / Served to 1999

Henry L. Yelverton

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Henry L. Yelverton was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1928 · age 98
Tenure: 1982–1999 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Yelverton authored 675 published opinions for the court (1979–2003), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Vallare (83 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. 443 of these were attributed to Yelverton 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
1983	State v. Vallare	430 So. 2d 1336	83
2001	Duhe v. Texaco, Inc.	779 So. 2d 1070	79
1983	State v. Shelby	438 So. 2d 1166	75
1983	State v. Anderson	440 So. 2d 205	61
1985	Gaspard v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.	483 So. 2d 1037	53
1984	Triangle Trucking Co. v. Alexander	451 So. 2d 638	46
1994	Baker v. Conagra Broiler Co.	640 So. 2d 494	39
2001	Murphy's Lease & Welding Service, Inc. v. Bayou Concessions Salvage, Inc.	780 So. 2d 1284	36
2002	State v. Paddio	832 So. 2d 1120	30
2001	Odom v. City of Lake Charles	790 So. 2d 51	30
1987	Touchton v. Kroger Company	512 So. 2d 520	28
1985	Richard v. Walgreen's Louisiana Co.	476 So. 2d 1150	28
1987	Webb v. Goodley	512 So. 2d 527	27
2002	Frank v. Kent Guidry Farms	816 So. 2d 969	26
1984	Meyers v. Imperial Cas. Indem. Co.	451 So. 2d 649	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 684 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 Henry L. Yelverton on?: Henry L. Yelverton was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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17 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).