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 1986 / Served to 1997

Mark Allen Babineaux

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Mark Allen Babineaux was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–1997 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Babineaux authored 15 published opinions for the court (1986–1997). Most cited: Queenan v. Queenan (43 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. 9 of these were attributed to Babineaux 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
1986	Queenan v. Queenan	492 So. 2d 902	43
1987	Gamble v. DW Jessen & Associates	509 So. 2d 1041	16
1986	Mitchell v. Pleasant Hill General Hosp., Inc.	491 So. 2d 183	12
1986	Mamou Farm Services, Inc. v. Hudson Ins. Co.	488 So. 2d 259	10
1986	Agr. Equipment Co., Inc. v. Rozas	488 So. 2d 241	7
1986	Ragsdale v. Sanders†	488 So. 2d 250	4
1986	Price v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.	492 So. 2d 514	3
1986	Thibodeaux v. Bordelon†	488 So. 2d 244	2
1986	State v. Goodly†	487 So. 2d 1280	2
1997	State v. McManus†	692 So. 2d 649	1
1986	Perrodin v. Highland Insurance Co.†	488 So. 2d 238	1
1997	Davis v. Davis†	693 So. 2d 233	0
1997	Grant v. Allstate Insurance Co.†	688 So. 2d 703	0
1986	Perrodin v. Highland Insurance Co.†	488 So. 2d 238	0
1986	Brantley v. Brantley†	488 So. 2d 239	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 15 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 Mark Allen Babineaux on?: Mark Allen Babineaux was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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11 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).