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 1970 / Served to 1982

Israel M. Augustine Jr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Israel M. Augustine Jr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–1994
Tenure: 1970–1982 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Lincoln University

Judicial Record

In our data, Augustine authored 43 published opinions for the court (1982–1984). Most cited: Gil v. Metal Service Corp. (55 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. 13 of these were attributed to Augustine 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
1982	Gil v. Metal Service Corp.	412 So. 2d 706	55
1982	Carpenter v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co.	411 So. 2d 1206	31
1982	Clark v. BOARD OF COM'RS, ETC.	422 So. 2d 247	26
1982	Vorisek v. Vorisek	423 So. 2d 758	25
1984	Grusich v. Grusich	447 So. 2d 93	18
1983	Tebbe v. Avegno	435 So. 2d 513	14
1984	State v. Howard	449 So. 2d 69	13
1982	Coleman v. Douglas Public Service, Inc.	423 So. 2d 1205	12
1983	State v. Murray	436 So. 2d 775	11
1982	Young v. South Central Bell Tel. Co.	412 So. 2d 147	11
1984	Tillman v. Massey	445 So. 2d 749	10
1983	Patterson v. Patterson	436 So. 2d 603	9
1983	Becnel v. Answer, Inc.	428 So. 2d 539	9
1982	Rye v. Terminix Service Co., Inc.	423 So. 2d 754	9
1983	Condall v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc.	436 So. 2d 595	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 43 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 Israel M. Augustine Jr. on?: Israel M. Augustine Jr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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12 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).