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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1968 / Served to 1975

Mack E. Barham

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Mack E. Barham was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2006
Tenure: 1968–1975 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Barham authored 388 published opinions for the court (1968–1975), plus 216 dissents and 119 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Prieur (910 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. 495 of these were attributed to Barham 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
1973	State v. Prieur	277 So. 2d 126	910
1972	Hill v. Lundin & Associates, Inc.	256 So. 2d 620	459
1971	Langlois v. Allied Chemical Corporation	249 So. 2d 133	282
1970	Pierre v. Allstate Insurance Company· Separate†	242 So. 2d 821	216
1972	Babineaux v. Pernie-Bailey Drilling Co.	262 So. 2d 328	184
1971	State v. Dotson· Dissent†	256 So. 2d 594	176
1970	Maloney v. Oak Builders, Inc.· Dissent†	235 So. 2d 386	162
1973	Bernhardt v. Bernhardt	283 So. 2d 226	158
1969	Bertrand v. Coal Operators Casualty Company· Dissent†	221 So. 2d 816	155
1975	Kavlich v. Kramer	315 So. 2d 282	152
1973	State v. Douglas	278 So. 2d 485	138
1968	Blanchard v. Ogima	215 So. 2d 902	121
1974	Hunt v. Bogalusa Community Medical Center	303 So. 2d 745	117
1970	Reymond v. State Ex Rel. Department of Highways	231 So. 2d 375	114
1975	State v. Carlisle	315 So. 2d 675	113

Showing the 15 most-cited of 725 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 Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Mack E. Barham on?: Mack E. Barham was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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7 years on the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).