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 2010 / Active

John Saunders

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

John Saunders is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Saunders authored 574 published opinions for the court (1993–2019), plus 29 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lambert (248 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. 273 of these were attributed to Saunders 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
1998	State v. Lambert	720 So. 2d 724	248
2009	Wilczewski v. Brookshire Grocery Store	2 So. 3d 1214	66
2000	George v. Guillory	776 So. 2d 1200	60
2001	Hazelwood Farm, Inc. v. Liberty Oil & Gas Corp.	790 So. 2d 93	50
2002	Mississippi Land Co. v. S & a PROPERTIES II	817 So. 2d 1200	45
2001	Romero v. Northrop-Grumman	787 So. 2d 1149	45
2007	Layssard v. STATE, DEPART. OF PUBLIC SAFETY	963 So. 2d 1053	44
2001	Johnson v. First Nat. Bank of Shreveport	792 So. 2d 33	44
2000	Libersat v. J & K TRUCKING, INC.	772 So. 2d 173	44
2002	Bordelon v. Sayer	811 So. 2d 1232	41
2000	Davis v. Coregis Ins. Co.	789 So. 2d 7	36
2007	State v. Semien	948 So. 2d 1189	35
2006	Landry v. Furniture Center	920 So. 2d 304	35
2011	McFadden v. Import One, Inc.†	56 So. 3d 1212	34
2008	Covington v. McNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY	996 So. 2d 667	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 609 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 Saunders on?: John Saunders is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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16 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).