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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 2006 / Active

John T. Pettigrew

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

John T. Pettigrew is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Pettigrew authored 255 published opinions for the court (2000–2018), plus 11 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: Janney v. Pearce (45 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. 209 of these were attributed to Pettigrew 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
2010	Janney v. Pearce†	40 So. 3d 285	45
2011	Joseph v. Ratcliff	63 So. 3d 220	35
2014	Kelley v. General Insurance Co. of America· Concurrence†	168 So. 3d 528	33
2017	State v. Dyson†	222 So. 3d 220	31
2000	Magee v. Pittman	761 So. 2d 731	31
2017	Kasem v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.†	212 So. 3d 6	30
2017	Bihm v. Deca Systems, Inc.†	226 So. 3d 466	29
2016	Temple v. Morgan· Dissent†	196 So. 3d 71	26
2010	All Crane Rental of Georgia, Inc. v. Vincent†	47 So. 3d 1024	25
2017	Williams v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co.· Concurrence†	217 So. 3d 421	22
2011	Oxy USA Inc. v. Quintana Production Co.	79 So. 3d 366	20
2009	Aaron & Turner, L.L.C. v. Perret· Concurrence†	22 So. 3d 910	19
2015	Hill v. Jindal†	175 So. 3d 988	18
2017	Henry v. Sullivan†	223 So. 3d 1263	16
2016	Neighbors Federal Credit Union v. Anderson†	196 So. 3d 727	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 291 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 T. Pettigrew on?: John T. Pettigrew is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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20 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).