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 2006 / Served to 2007

Max Tobias

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Max Tobias was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2007 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Tobias authored 249 published opinions for the court (2000–2012), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Pope v. New Orleans Police Dept. (67 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. 21 of these were attributed to Tobias 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
2005	Pope v. New Orleans Police Dept.	903 So. 2d 1	67
2004	Hale v. Touro Infirmary	886 So. 2d 1210	65
2006	Marziale v. Department of Police	944 So. 2d 760	57
2008	Everhardt v. LOUISIANA DOTD	978 So. 2d 1036	52
2002	Winkler v. Wadleigh Offshore, Inc.	817 So. 2d 313	51
2010	State v. Barbour	35 So. 3d 1142	45
2009	State v. Wiltz	28 So. 3d 554	44
2002	State v. Plaisance	811 So. 2d 1172	41
2008	Cornelius v. Department of Police	981 So. 2d 720	36
2003	State v. Phillips	853 So. 2d 675	35
2011	State v. McElveen	73 So. 3d 1033	33
2005	State v. Scott	913 So. 2d 843	33
2005	Rathey v. Priority EMS, Inc.	894 So. 2d 438	31
2005	French Quarter Realty v. Gambel	921 So. 2d 1025	29
2001	State v. Carter	779 So. 2d 125	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 253 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 Max Tobias on?: Max Tobias was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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1 year 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).