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 1979 / Served to 1996

Jimmy M. Stoker

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Jimmy M. Stoker was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1996 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Stoker authored 808 published opinions for the court (1977–1994), plus 14 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Naquin (79 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. 493 of these were attributed to Stoker 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
1988	State v. Naquin	527 So. 2d 601	79
1977	Moon v. Moon	345 So. 2d 168	47
1980	Sikes v. McLean Trucking Co.	383 So. 2d 111	45
1992	Romero v. Grey Wolf Drilling Co.	594 So. 2d 1008	41
1980	Liberto v. Villard	386 So. 2d 930	39
1980	Williams v. Louisiana MacHinery Co., Inc.	387 So. 2d 8	38
1980	Cobb v. Insured Lloyds	387 So. 2d 13	35
1992	Kibbe v. Lege	604 So. 2d 1366	33
1980	LeGlue Buick, Inc. v. Smith	390 So. 2d 262	33
1979	Steele v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.	371 So. 2d 843	33
1980	Albritton v. JC Penney Co., Inc.	385 So. 2d 549	32
1979	Thompson v. Courville	372 So. 2d 579	31
1986	State v. Fickes	497 So. 2d 392	30
1985	Robinson v. North American Royalties, Inc.	463 So. 2d 1384	30
1985	Patin v. Patin	462 So. 2d 1356	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 850 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 Jimmy M. Stoker on?: Jimmy M. Stoker was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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17 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).