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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 2009 / Active

Marcus R. Clark

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Marcus R. Clark is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: Since 2009 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Clark authored 139 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 73 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Wooley v. Lucksinger (352 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. 164 of these were attributed to Clark 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
2011	Wooley v. Lucksinger†	61 So. 3d 507	352
2011	Taranto v. Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.· Concurrence†	62 So. 3d 721	114
2012	State v. Magee· Concurrence†	103 So. 3d 285	109
2011	Land v. Vidrine	62 So. 3d 36	102
2013	Ogea v. Merritt· Concurrence†	130 So. 3d 888	98
2011	Eagle Pipe and Supply, Inc. v. Amerada Hess Corporation†	79 So. 3d 246	97
2012	Arabie v. CITGO Petroleum Corp.†	89 So. 3d 307	91
2015	Reynolds v. Bordelon†	172 So. 3d 607	89
2014	State of Louisiana v. Eric Dale Mickelson· Dissent†	149 So. 3d 178	74
2012	Jenkins v. Starns· Dissent†	85 So. 3d 612	67
2013	Milbert v. Answering Bureau, Inc.†	120 So. 3d 678	54
2012	State v. Thompson†	93 So. 3d 553	54
2014	Maw Enterprises, L.L.C. v. City of Marksville· Dissent†	149 So. 3d 210	50
2013	State v. Bazile†	144 So. 3d 719	50
2013	State v. Louisiana Land & Exploration Co.†	110 So. 3d 1038	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 236 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 is Marcus R. Clark on?: Marcus R. Clark is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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16 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).