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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1982 / Active

Jeannette Knoll

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Jeannette Knoll is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: Since 1982 · 44 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Knoll authored 587 published opinions for the court (1983–2014), plus 28 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Doyle v. Picadilly Cafeterias (83 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. 366 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
1991	Doyle v. Picadilly Cafeterias	576 So. 2d 1143	83
2014	Quality Environmental Processes, Inc. v. I.P. Petroleum Co.· Dissent†	144 So. 3d 1011	80
1994	State v. Moore	640 So. 2d 561	77
1990	LaHaye v. Allstate Ins. Co.	570 So. 2d 460	62
1988	Streeter v. Sears, Roebuck and Co., Inc.	533 So. 2d 54	51
1988	Bordelon v. Cochrane	533 So. 2d 82	37
1988	Charles v. Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co.	525 So. 2d 1272	33
1987	Silliker v. St. Landry Police Jury	520 So. 2d 880	31
1995	Hasha v. Calcasieu Parish Police Jury	651 So. 2d 865	28
1994	Bordelon v. St. Frances Cabrini Hosp.	640 So. 2d 476	27
1988	Highlands Ins. Co. v. Missouri Pacific RR Co.	532 So. 2d 317	27
1985	Arnold v. TG & Y. STORES CO.	466 So. 2d 529	27
1994	Detraz v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co.	647 So. 2d 576	26
1994	State v. Guidry	647 So. 2d 502	25
1987	Veillon v. Veillon	517 So. 2d 936	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 626 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 Jeannette Knoll on?: Jeannette Knoll is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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44 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).