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 1997 / Active

John Guidry

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

John Guidry is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1997 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Southern University Law Center

Judicial Record

In our data, Guidry authored 1,165 published opinions for the court (1976–2019), plus 41 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Everett (121 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. 344 of these were attributed to Guidry 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. Everett	530 So. 2d 615	121
1983	State v. Morgan	428 So. 2d 1215	83
2014	Quality Environmental Processes, Inc. v. I.P. Petroleum Co.†	144 So. 3d 1011	80
1985	State v. Cottingin	476 So. 2d 1184	58
1991	Morris v. People's Bank & Trust Co.	580 So. 2d 1029	44
1979	Trahan v. Larivee	365 So. 2d 294	44
1977	Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Grant Parish Sheriff's Department	350 So. 2d 236	44
1983	Terrell v. Messenger	428 So. 2d 1241	43
1992	Durrosseau v. Century 21 Flavin Realty	594 So. 2d 1036	42
1992	State v. Gachot	609 So. 2d 269	39
1988	Breaux v. Travelers Ins. Co.	526 So. 2d 284	39
1977	Craft v. Trahan	351 So. 2d 277	39
1976	Swiftships, Inc. v. Burdin	338 So. 2d 1193	38
1992	State v. DeCuir	599 So. 2d 358	34
1994	State v. Brossette	634 So. 2d 1309	33

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 Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is John Guidry on?: John Guidry is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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28 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).