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 2004

James C. Gulotta Sr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

James C. Gulotta Sr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2013
Tenure: 1970–2004 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Gulotta authored 781 published opinions for the court (1970–2007), plus 44 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Hills (42 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. 543 of these were attributed to Gulotta 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. Hills	727 So. 2d 1215	42
1983	Williams v. City of New Orleans	433 So. 2d 1129	42
1972	Lauro v. Travelers Insurance Company	261 So. 2d 261	41
1991	Adams v. Chevron USA, Inc.	589 So. 2d 1219	40
1984	Delta Development v. Plaquemines Parish	451 So. 2d 134	33
1985	State v. Huffman	480 So. 2d 396	28
1979	Yarbrough v. Louisiana Cement Co., Inc.	370 So. 2d 602	25
1979	Meadoux v. Hall	369 So. 2d 240	21
1999	Chaney v. Coastal Cargo, Inc.	730 So. 2d 971	20
1991	Wilson v. US Fire and Cas. Co.	593 So. 2d 695	20
1976	Reggio v. Louisiana Gas Service Co.	333 So. 2d 395	20
2001	State v. Ware	795 So. 2d 495	19
1986	Sherlock v. Berry	487 So. 2d 555	19
1984	State v. Hawthorne	454 So. 2d 285	19
1982	Seymour v. Seymour	423 So. 2d 770	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 862 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 C. Gulotta Sr. on?: James C. Gulotta Sr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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34 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).