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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 2012 / Active

Jefferson D. Hughes III

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Jefferson D. Hughes III is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, serving since 2012. He previously served on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–
2012	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Hughes authored 185 published opinions for the court (1981–2026), plus 103 dissents and 59 concurrences. Most cited: Roy Bufkin, Jr. v. Felipe's Louisiana, LLC (206 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. 275 of these were attributed to Hughes 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
2014	Roy Bufkin, Jr. v. Felipe's Louisiana, LLC	171 So. 3d 851	206
2014	Jackson v. City of New Orleans†	144 So. 3d 876	147
2015	Reynolds v. Bordelon· Dissent†	172 So. 3d 607	89
2017	Danielle Larson v. Xyz Insurance Company	226 So. 3d 412	86
2014	State of Louisiana v. Eric Dale Mickelson· Concurrence†	149 So. 3d 178	74
2013	Luther v. Iom Co.†	130 So. 3d 817	71
2018	Kerry Maggio v. James Parker The Sandwich Kings, LLC (d/B/A Jimmy John's) Republic-Vanguard Insurance Company And Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance Company· Concurrence†	250 So. 3d 874	58
2016	Tracie F. v. Francisco D.· Dissent†	188 So. 3d 231	55
2014	Joyce Gorman v. City of Opelousas· Dissent†	148 So. 3d 888	51
2015	Scott D. Lemoine Beverly P. Lemoine v. Elizabeth P. Wolfe· Dissent†	168 So. 3d 362	50
2014	Maw Enterprises, L.L.C. v. City of Marksville· Dissent†	149 So. 3d 210	50
2013	State v. Bazile· Dissent†	144 So. 3d 719	50
2013	State v. Oliphant· Dissent†	113 So. 3d 165	50
1981	Brown v. White	405 So. 2d 555	46
2013	Snider v. Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance†	130 So. 3d 922	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 347 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 Jefferson D. Hughes III on?: Jefferson D. Hughes III is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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14 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).