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 1981 / Active

Lawrence Chehardy

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Lawrence Chehardy is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1981 · 45 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Chehardy authored 516 published opinions for the court (1980–1995), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Watermeier v. Watermeier (66 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. 233 of these were attributed to Chehardy 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
1985	Watermeier v. Watermeier	462 So. 2d 1272	66
1990	Jones v. Gillen	564 So. 2d 1274	55
1982	State in Interest of Driscoll	410 So. 2d 255	47
1989	State v. Junior	542 So. 2d 23	39
1985	Blanchard v. Reeves	469 So. 2d 1165	31
1983	Morris v. Rental Tools, Inc.	435 So. 2d 528	30
1988	McGuire v. Davis Truck Services, Inc.	518 So. 2d 1171	26
1985	State in Interest of Tatom	463 So. 2d 35	25
1983	Fouchi v. Fouchi	442 So. 2d 506	25
1980	Abadie v. Morales	391 So. 2d 974	25
1988	State v. Gilmore	522 So. 2d 658	24
1985	Pomares v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.	474 So. 2d 976	24
1982	Draughn v. Mart	411 So. 2d 1188	23
1988	State v. Richard	525 So. 2d 1097	22
1982	Bank of New Orleans & Trust Co. v. Phillips	415 So. 2d 973	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 518 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 Lawrence Chehardy on?: Lawrence Chehardy is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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45 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).