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 1999 / Served to 2006

James Cannella

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

James Cannella was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2006 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cannella authored 519 published opinions for the court (1991–2006), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Hotoph (148 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. 124 of these were attributed to Cannella 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
1999	State v. Hotoph	750 So. 2d 1036	148
2004	State v. Bailey	875 So. 2d 949	116
2002	State v. Harrell	811 So. 2d 1015	91
2005	State v. Williams	904 So. 2d 830	76
2002	State v. Esteen	821 So. 2d 60	73
2000	State v. Quest	772 So. 2d 772	62
2000	State v. Perrilloux	762 So. 2d 198	57
1998	State v. Stelly	725 So. 2d 562	55
1999	State v. Hollins	742 So. 2d 671	53
2003	State v. Lyles	858 So. 2d 35	49
1999	State v. Richmond	734 So. 2d 33	45
2000	State v. Cazenave	772 So. 2d 854	44
1997	State v. Guccione	694 So. 2d 1060	43
2004	State v. Ingram	888 So. 2d 923	42
2001	State v. Addison	788 So. 2d 608	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 525 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 Cannella on?: James Cannella was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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7 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).