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 1998 / Active

James McKay

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

James McKay is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McKay authored 265 published opinions for the court (1998–2018), plus 46 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Batiste (87 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. 117 of these were attributed to McKay 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
2006	State v. Batiste	947 So. 2d 810	87
2005	Bank One, Nat. Ass'n v. Velten	917 So. 2d 454	40
2008	Crutcher-Tufts Resources, Inc. v. Tufts	992 So. 2d 1091	38
2001	State ex rel. T.E.†	787 So. 2d 414	38
2005	Mossy Motors, Inc. v. Cameras America	898 So. 2d 602	37
2015	Chatelain v. Fluor Daniel Construction Co.· Concurrence†	179 So. 3d 791	35
2001	Johnson v. Orleans Parish School Bd.	790 So. 2d 734	35
2007	State v. Galindo	968 So. 2d 1102	30
2005	State v. Stewart	909 So. 2d 636	29
2001	Philips v. Berner	789 So. 2d 41	29
2009	Prejean v. Maintenance Enterprises, Inc.· Concurrence†	8 So. 3d 766	27
2015	Honore v. Department of Public Works· Dissent†	178 So. 3d 1120	26
2008	State v. Williams	977 So. 2d 1101	25
2008	Johnson v. Orleans Parish School Bd.	975 So. 2d 698	24
2009	Ritter v. Exxon Mobile Corp.	20 So. 3d 540	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 328 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 is James McKay on?: James McKay is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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28 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).