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 1995 / Served to 2014

Jeffrey P. Victory

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Jeffrey P. Victory was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1995. He previously served on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1995–2014 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–
1995	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Centenary College
Tulane University of Louisiana
Centenary College
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Victory authored 1,126 published opinions for the court (1991–2014), plus 60 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Johnson (838 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. 203 of these were attributed to Victory 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
1998	State v. Johnson	709 So. 2d 672	838
2000	Independent Fire Ins. Co. v. Sunbeam Corp.	755 So. 2d 226	670
2000	State v. Guzman	769 So. 2d 1158	587
2001	State v. Neal	796 So. 2d 649	575
2009	Rando v. Anco Insulations Inc.· Dissent†	16 So. 3d 1065	399
1999	Hardy v. Bowie	744 So. 2d 606	328
2007	Wright v. Louisiana Power & Light	951 So. 2d 1058	246
2013	Broussard v. State ex rel. Office of State Buildings· Dissent†	113 So. 3d 175	216
1996	State v. Taylor	669 So. 2d 364	209
2010	Marin v. Exxon Mobil Corp.	48 So. 3d 234	196
1996	Pitre v. Louisiana Tech University	673 So. 2d 585	193
1997	Reeder v. North	701 So. 2d 1291	189
2000	State v. Lindsey	770 So. 2d 339	166
1999	Reeves v. Structural Preservation Systems	731 So. 2d 208	161
2007	State v. Blank	955 So. 2d 90	154

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,222 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 Jeffrey P. Victory on?: Jeffrey P. Victory was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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19 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).