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 1945 / Served to 1946

J Frank McInnis

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

J Frank McInnis was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1959
Tenure: 1945–1946 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McInnis authored 50 published opinions for the court (1945–1954). Most cited: Broughton v. Touchstone (17 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. 1 of these was attributed to McInnis 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
1954	Broughton v. Touchstone	72 So. 2d 552	17
1946	Ohio Oil Co. v. Kennedy	28 So. 2d 504	14
1946	McDonald v. Zurich General Acc. Liability Ins. Co.	25 So. 2d 923	13
1952	Livingston v. Henry & Hall	59 So. 2d 892	12
1946	Jeter Monroe v. Daniels	25 So. 2d 911	11
1952	Brown v. International Paper Co.	58 So. 2d 557	10
1946	Stephenson v. McCook Bros. Funeral Home	27 So. 2d 644	9
1945	Howze v. Hollandsworth	26 So. 2d 381	9
1953	WM Bailey & Sons v. Western Geophysical Co.	66 So. 2d 424	8
1953	Edwards v. City of Shreveport	66 So. 2d 373	7
1953	Rabalais v. Hillary Builders	62 So. 2d 846	7
1953	Ober v. McGinty	66 So. 2d 385	6
1953	Watts v. Winn Parish School Board	66 So. 2d 350	6
1946	McLain v. National Mut. Casualty Co.	28 So. 2d 680	6
1946	Cruse v. Bruscato	28 So. 2d 56	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 50 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 J Frank McInnis on?: J Frank McInnis was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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1 year 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).