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 1943 / Served to 1970

Joe Busbey Hamiter

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Joe Busbey Hamiter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1986
Tenure: 1943–1970 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Hamiter authored 764 published opinions for the court (1943–1970), plus 122 dissents and 46 concurrences. Most cited: Gaspard v. LeMaire (710 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. 480 of these were attributed to Hamiter 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
1963	Gaspard v. LeMaire· Concurrence†	158 So. 2d 149	710
1963	Kay v. Carter	150 So. 2d 27	194
1954	Meyer v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co.	73 So. 2d 781	129
1953	Albritton v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.· Dissent†	70 So. 2d 111	112
1952	Wright v. National Surety Corp.· Concurrence†	59 So. 2d 695	112
1956	Messersmith v. Messersmith· Concurrence†	86 So. 2d 169	103
1949	White v. City of Alexandria	43 So. 2d 618	99
1960	Youngblood v. Robison· Dissent†	118 So. 2d 431	97
1943	Boxwell v. Department of Highways	14 So. 2d 627	93
1961	Moak v. American Automobile Insurance Company	134 So. 2d 911	90
1961	McFarland v. Illinois Central Railroad Co.	127 So. 2d 183	86
1968	People of Living God v. Chantilly Corporation	207 So. 2d 752	85
1965	Taylor v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance· Dissent†	178 So. 2d 238	83
1958	Blevins v. Manufacturers Record Publishing Co.· Concurrence†	105 So. 2d 392	83
1948	Plunkett v. United Electric Service	36 So. 2d 704	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 956 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 Joe Busbey Hamiter on?: Joe Busbey Hamiter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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27 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).