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 1961 / Served to 1985

L J. Samuel

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

L J. Samuel was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1961–1985 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Samuel authored 1,078 published opinions for the court (1958–2009), plus 23 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Poche v. Frazier (59 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. 725 of these were attributed to Samuel 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
1970	Poche v. Frazier	232 So. 2d 851	59
1982	Josephs v. Austin	420 So. 2d 1181	48
1965	Danks v. Maher	177 So. 2d 412	48
1980	Sevin v. Shape Spa for Health & Beauty Inc.	384 So. 2d 1011	43
1962	D'Antoni v. Sara Mayo Hospital	144 So. 2d 643	43
1970	Collins v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.	234 So. 2d 270	41
1970	Adler v. Adler	239 So. 2d 494	36
1980	Joseph v. Department of Health	389 So. 2d 739	33
1978	Herbert v. Department of Police	362 So. 2d 1190	32
1967	Speziale v. Kohnke	194 So. 2d 485	32
1976	Robinson v. General Motors Corporation	328 So. 2d 751	30
1971	Lumber Products, Inc. v. Hiriart	255 So. 2d 783	28
1965	Britt v. Brocato	170 So. 2d 516	28
1973	Valladares v. Monarch Insurance Company	282 So. 2d 569	27
1967	Steele v. Ruiz	202 So. 2d 376	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,127 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 was L J. Samuel on?: L J. Samuel was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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24 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).