How do judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1955 / Served to 1960

James D. Simon

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

James D. Simon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1982
Tenure: 1955–1960 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Simon authored 199 published opinions for the court (1955–1960), plus 9 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Vowell v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Co. (113 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. 122 of these were attributed to Simon 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
1956	Vowell v. Manufacturers Casualty Insurance Co.	86 So. 2d 909	113
1956	Messersmith v. Messersmith	86 So. 2d 169	103
1958	Kendrick v. Mason	99 So. 2d 108	101
1955	Fontenot v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.	80 So. 2d 845	91
1958	Blevins v. Manufacturers Record Publishing Co.	105 So. 2d 392	83
1959	Hernandez v. Harson	111 So. 2d 320	81
1955	Amyx v. Henry & Hall	79 So. 2d 483	78
1960	Messner v. Messner	122 So. 2d 90	69
1956	Breaux v. Laird	88 So. 2d 33	69
1958	Roberts v. City of Baton Rouge	108 So. 2d 111	66
1958	California Company v. Price· Dissent†	99 So. 2d 743	63
1957	Sessum v. Hemperley· Dissent†	96 So. 2d 832	63
1956	Snodgrass v. Centanni	87 So. 2d 127	61
1959	Parish of Iberia v. Cook	116 So. 2d 491	60
1959	Cain v. Employers Casualty Company	110 So. 2d 108	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 218 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 Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was James D. Simon on?: James D. Simon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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5 years on the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).