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 2007 / Active

Jimmie C. Peters

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Jimmie C. Peters is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Peters authored 550 published opinions for the court (1972–2016), plus 16 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Whatley (133 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. 246 of these were attributed to Peters 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
2004	State v. Whatley	867 So. 2d 955	133
2009	State ex rel. A.B.†	25 So. 3d 1012	59
2011	Dugas v. Works†	61 So. 3d 826	54
2011	State v. Decuir†	61 So. 3d 782	52
2006	Egle v. Egle	923 So. 2d 780	49
2005	Cormier v. Colston	918 So. 2d 541	48
2000	SUTTON'S STEEL & SUP. INC. v. BellSouth Mobility, Inc.	776 So. 2d 589	45
2008	Boykin v. PPG Industries, Inc.	987 So. 2d 838	43
2004	Sigler v. Rand	896 So. 2d 189	40
1976	Bourque v. Duplechin	331 So. 2d 40	35
2008	State v. F.B.A.†	983 So. 2d 1006	34
2005	Basco v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.	909 So. 2d 660	34
2005	Abshire v. Belmont Homes, Inc.	896 So. 2d 277	33
2006	BELLSOUTH TELE. v. City of Lafayette	919 So. 2d 844	32
2015	Swift Energy Operating, L.L.C. v. Plemco-South, Inc.†	157 So. 3d 1154	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 577 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 Jimmie C. Peters on?: Jimmie C. Peters is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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19 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).