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 1980 / Served to 1989

Jasper Jones

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Jasper Jones was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1980–1989 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 638 published opinions for the court (1979–1989), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Cunningham (153 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. 291 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1983	State v. Cunningham	431 So. 2d 854	153
1988	State v. Lott	535 So. 2d 963	104
1988	State v. Madison	535 So. 2d 1024	100
1987	State v. Mills	505 So. 2d 933	94
1984	State v. Palmer	448 So. 2d 765	86
1987	State v. O'NEAL	501 So. 2d 920	63
1983	Watson v. Cook	427 So. 2d 1312	58
1984	McCoy v. Physicians & Surgeons Hosp., Inc.	452 So. 2d 308	56
1985	State v. Winzer	465 So. 2d 817	54
1986	Harris v. Pineset†	499 So. 2d 499	43
1982	Williams v. Delta Haven, Inc.	416 So. 2d 637	43
1989	Hayden v. Richland Parish School Bd.	554 So. 2d 164	42
1984	State v. Beck	445 So. 2d 470	40
1985	Laborde v. Velsicol Chemical Corp.	474 So. 2d 1320	37
1986	Ballew v. Southland Corp.	482 So. 2d 890	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 644 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 Jasper Jones on?: Jasper Jones was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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9 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).