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 1997 / Active

Jeanette Theriot Knoll

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Jeanette Theriot Knoll is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: Since 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Knoll authored 564 published opinions for the court (1997–2024), plus 107 dissents and 72 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Williams (610 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. 269 of these were attributed to Knoll 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
2001	State v. Williams	800 So. 2d 790	610
2002	Campo v. Correa	828 So. 2d 502	408
2009	Rando v. Anco Insulations Inc.	16 So. 3d 1065	399
2003	Cadwallader v. Allstate Ins. Co.	848 So. 2d 577	379
2005	Carter v. Haygood	892 So. 2d 1261	334
2000	State v. Mitchell	772 So. 2d 78	314
1998	Cat's Meow, Inc. v. City of New Orleans Through Department of Finance	720 So. 2d 1186	277
2001	Fink v. Bryant	801 So. 2d 346	275
2004	Richard v. Hall	874 So. 2d 131	270
2003	State v. Thompson	842 So. 2d 330	253
2008	MJ Farms, Ltd. v. Exxon Mobil Corp.	998 So. 2d 16	241
2005	RJ Messinger, Inc. v. Rosenblum	894 So. 2d 1113	225
2000	Joseph v. Broussard Rice Mill, Inc.	772 So. 2d 94	223
2013	Broussard v. State ex rel. Office of State Buildings†	113 So. 3d 175	216
1999	City of New Orleans v. Bd. of Dir. of State Museum	739 So. 2d 748	213

Showing the 15 most-cited of 744 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 is Jeanette Theriot Knoll on?: Jeanette Theriot Knoll is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

29 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).