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

Jude G. Gravois

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Jude G. Gravois 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	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gravois authored 355 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Long (138 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. 297 of these were attributed to Gravois 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
2012	State v. Long†	106 So. 3d 1136	138
2012	State v. Brooks†	103 So. 3d 608	65
2011	State v. Seals	83 So. 3d 285	51
2011	State v. Bazley†	60 So. 3d 7	51
2013	State v. Casimer†	113 So. 3d 1129	29
2012	Pinegrove Electrical Supply Co. v. Cat Key Construction, Inc.†	88 So. 3d 1097	25
2017	State v. Jamison†	222 So. 3d 908	22
2013	State v. Alfaro†	128 So. 3d 515	22
2010	Bell v. Parry	61 So. 3d 1	21
2017	Sarasino v. State ex rel. Department of Public Safety & Corrections†	215 So. 3d 923	20
2015	State v. Kent†	178 So. 3d 219	19
2013	State v. Johnson†	128 So. 3d 325	19
2010	State v. Williams	54 So. 3d 98	19
2010	State v. Tate	33 So. 3d 292	18
2009	Paternostro v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc.	30 So. 3d 45	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 361 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 Jude G. Gravois on?: Jude G. Gravois is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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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).