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 2003 / Active

John Larry Lolley

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

John Larry Lolley is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal (50 judges, selected by partisan election), serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lolley authored 327 published opinions for the court (2003–2017), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: State v. DeBerry (101 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. 313 of these were attributed to Lolley 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
2016	State v. DeBerry†	194 So. 3d 657	101
2016	State v. Ward†	209 So. 3d 228	35
2004	State v. Spivey	874 So. 2d 352	35
2015	State v. Robinson†	163 So. 3d 829	33
2015	State v. Reese†	166 So. 3d 1175	26
2013	State v. Martin†	115 So. 3d 750	24
2017	State v. Sumler†	219 So. 3d 503	23
2016	State v. Lindsey†	189 So. 3d 1104	22
2010	State v. Williams†	54 So. 3d 1129	20
2015	State v. Holder†	181 So. 3d 918	19
2011	State v. Ingram†	71 So. 3d 437	19
2010	State v. Stevenson†	41 So. 3d 1273	18
2016	State v. Cotten†	201 So. 3d 299	17
2011	Daigle v. City of Shreveport†	78 So. 3d 753	17
2010	Johnson v. Littleton†	37 So. 3d 542	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 334 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 Larry Lolley on?: John Larry Lolley is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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23 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).