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 1995 / Served to 2011

Hillary Crain

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Hillary Crain was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2011 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Crain authored 193 published opinions for the court (1972–2011). Most cited: State v. Korman (221 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. 9 of these were attributed to Crain 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. Korman	439 So. 2d 1099	221
1990	State v. Herrin	562 So. 2d 1	91
1987	State v. Tate	506 So. 2d 546	89
1990	State v. Latiolais	563 So. 2d 469	65
1987	State v. Orgeron	512 So. 2d 467	54
2011	State v. Craig	66 So. 3d 60	51
1990	Watson v. Amite Mill. Co., Inc.	560 So. 2d 902	40
1986	State v. Dupre	500 So. 2d 873	38
1989	State v. Hicks	554 So. 2d 1298	29
1986	State v. Burge	498 So. 2d 196	25
1986	State v. Roy	496 So. 2d 583	24
1986	State v. Hawkins	496 So. 2d 643	24
1983	Appeal of Brisset	436 So. 2d 654	24
1983	Harris v. Atlanta Stove Works, Inc.	428 So. 2d 1040	24
1989	Winstead v. Ed's Live Catfish & Seafood, Inc.	554 So. 2d 1237	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 193 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 Hillary Crain on?: Hillary Crain was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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16 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).