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 1960 / Served to 1978

James E. Bolin

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

James E. Bolin was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–2002
Tenure: 1960–1978 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Bolin authored 990 published opinions for the court (1959–2000), plus 18 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Fullilove v. US Casualty Company of New York (80 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. 630 of these were attributed to Bolin 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
1961	Fullilove v. US Casualty Company of New York	129 So. 2d 816	80
1975	Carter v. Catfish Cabin	316 So. 2d 517	63
1978	Moore v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.	364 So. 2d 630	46
1977	Foster v. Marshall	341 So. 2d 1354	42
1977	Miller v. Employers Mut. Liability Ins. Co.	349 So. 2d 1353	40
1972	Shows v. Williamson	256 So. 2d 688	36
1977	Williamson v. Village of Baskin	339 So. 2d 474	35
1962	Town of Coushatta v. Valley Electric Member. Corp.	139 So. 2d 822	35
1971	Brown v. News-World Publishing Corp.	245 So. 2d 430	33
1964	Breland v. American Insurance Company	163 So. 2d 583	33
1961	Anderson v. Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Ins. Co.	127 So. 2d 304	33
1975	State, Dept. of Highways v. UNITED PENT. CHURCH OF HODGE	313 So. 2d 886	32
1975	Bamburg v. Nelson	313 So. 2d 872	30
1963	Mathews v. Marquette Casualty Company	152 So. 2d 577	30
1978	Porter v. Utica Mut. Ins. Co.	357 So. 2d 1234	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,016 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 James E. Bolin on?: James E. Bolin was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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18 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).