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 1963 / Served to 1968

Jess Johnson

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Jess Johnson was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1963–1968 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 51 published opinions for the court (1962–1968). Most cited: Robbins v. New Orleans Public Library (28 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. 34 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
1968	Robbins v. New Orleans Public Library	208 So. 2d 25	28
1968	Pattison v. Pattison	208 So. 2d 395	20
1968	De Blanc v. Southern Baptist Hospital	207 So. 2d 868	17
1968	Hamilton v. New Amsterdam Casualty Company	208 So. 2d 158	15
1968	Duxworth v. Pat Caffey Contractor, Inc.	209 So. 2d 497	10
1968	Beneficial Finance Company of Louisiana v. Lathrop	207 So. 2d 220	10
1962	Succession of Washington	140 So. 2d 906	10
1962	Seale v. Checker Cab Company	137 So. 2d 478	10
1968	DeRouin v. Hinphy	209 So. 2d 352	9
1963	Rimbolt v. City of New Orleans†	150 So. 2d 871	8
1962	Succession of Vlaho	140 So. 2d 226	8
1968	Pelican Printing Co. v. Pecot	216 So. 2d 153	7
1968	City Stores Company v. Jordan	211 So. 2d 709	7
1968	Bourgeois v. Sazdoff	209 So. 2d 320	7
1968	Klotz v. Nola Cabs, Inc.	209 So. 2d 158	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 51 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 Jess Johnson on?: Jess Johnson was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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5 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).