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 2009 / Active

Marc Johnson

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Marc Johnson is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 413 published opinions for the court (2009–2026), plus 34 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Page (52 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. 407 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
2009	State v. Page	28 So. 3d 442	52
2011	Breaux v. Fresh Start Properties, L.L.C.†	78 So. 3d 849	39
2010	Morales v. Parish of Jefferson†	54 So. 3d 669	32
2016	Monroe v. McDaniel†	207 So. 3d 1172	31
2015	State v. Nelson†	169 So. 3d 493	29
2015	State v. Gonzalez†	173 So. 3d 1227	27
2010	State v. Thomas†	54 So. 3d 678	27
2017	Populis v. State, Department of Transportation & Development†	222 So. 3d 975	25
2015	Tenorio v. Exxon Mobil Corp.†	170 So. 3d 269	25
2011	Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. ex rel. Morgan Stanley ABS Capital I Inc. v. Carter†	59 So. 3d 1282	25
2010	State v. Jones	33 So. 3d 306	25
2010	State v. Woods	38 So. 3d 391	23
2012	State v. Ott†	102 So. 3d 944	22
2018	Stogner v. Ochsner Clinic Found.†	254 So. 3d 1254	21
2015	State v. Griffin†	169 So. 3d 473	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 463 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 Marc Johnson on?: Marc Johnson is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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17 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).