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 1999 / Served to 2012

Marion E. Edwards

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Marion E. Edwards was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Edwards authored 1,144 published opinions for the court (1976–2012), plus 15 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wingerter (120 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. 213 of these were attributed to Edwards 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
2006	State v. Wingerter	926 So. 2d 662	120
1999	State v. Stec	749 So. 2d 784	93
1999	State v. Williams	735 So. 2d 62	90
2004	State v. Allen	868 So. 2d 877	77
1988	State v. Watkins	532 So. 2d 1182	73
2004	State v. Grant	887 So. 2d 596	70
1999	State v. Williams	742 So. 2d 604	68
1995	Williams v. City of Monroe	658 So. 2d 820	66
1977	State in Interest of Mason	356 So. 2d 530	65
2009	State v. Campbell	15 So. 3d 1076	60
2008	State v. Lawson	1 So. 3d 516	59
1984	Roustabouts, Inc. v. Hamer	447 So. 2d 543	56
1979	Applewhite v. City of Baton Rouge	380 So. 2d 119	56
1992	Crane v. Exxon Corp., USA	613 So. 2d 214	55
1984	Varnado v. Continental Ins. Co.	446 So. 2d 1343	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,166 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 Marion E. Edwards on?: Marion E. Edwards was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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13 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).