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 2000 / Served to 2009

Madeline Jasmine

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Madeline Jasmine was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2009 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jasmine authored 31 published opinions for the court (2000–2009), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lawson (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. 8 of these were attributed to Jasmine 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
2008	State v. Lawson· Concurrence†	1 So. 3d 516	59
2009	State v. Grimes· Dissent†	16 So. 3d 418	24
2009	State v. Johnson· Concurrence†	9 So. 3d 1084	22
2008	Dufresne v. Dufresne	992 So. 2d 579	21
2009	State v. Thomas· Concurrence†	8 So. 3d 80	18
2009	State v. Ayo	7 So. 3d 85	16
2009	Legaux-Barrow v. Barrow· Dissent†	8 So. 3d 87	15
2009	State v. Lee	15 So. 3d 229	12
2009	3218 Magazine, L.L.C. v. Lloyds of London	10 So. 3d 242	9
2008	State v. Simmons	996 So. 2d 1177	9
2009	State v. Lathers· Dissent†	15 So. 3d 1068	8
2009	Babin v. Babin	10 So. 3d 784	8
2009	State v. Scott	8 So. 3d 658	8
2009	State v. Savoie	15 So. 3d 207	6
2009	State v. Smith	9 So. 3d 238	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 Madeline Jasmine on?: Madeline Jasmine was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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9 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).