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 2003 / Served to 2008

Leon Cannizzaro

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Leon Cannizzaro was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2008 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cannizzaro authored 196 published opinions for the court (2003–2008), plus 12 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Dempsey (49 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. 124 of these were attributed to Cannizzaro 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
2003	State v. Dempsey	844 So. 2d 1037	49
2005	Olavarrieta v. St. Pierre	902 So. 2d 566	35
2007	Hornot v. Cardenas	968 So. 2d 789	31
2003	Pelleteri v. Caspian Group Inc.	851 So. 2d 1230	31
2008	Brumfield v. McElwee	976 So. 2d 234	22
2008	Ordoyne v. Ordoyne	982 So. 2d 899	18
2005	Clear Channel Broadcasting, Inc. v. Brown	901 So. 2d 553	17
2006	Cox Communications v. Tommy Bowman Roofing, LLC†	929 So. 2d 161	16
2005	Grefer v. Alpha Technical	901 So. 2d 1117	16
2005	Fernandez v. Pizzalato	902 So. 2d 1112	16
2004	Gresham v. Production Management, Inc.	868 So. 2d 171	16
2003	Faust v. Greater Lakeside Corp.	861 So. 2d 716	16
2007	Grefer v. Alpha Technical	965 So. 2d 511	15
2007	Lomax v. Ernest Morial Convention Center†	963 So. 2d 463	15
2006	State v. Rideau	947 So. 2d 127	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 220 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 Leon Cannizzaro on?: Leon Cannizzaro was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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5 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).