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 2000

Michael Kirby

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

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

Tenure: 1999–2000 · 1 yr

Judicial service

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

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Kirby authored 286 published opinions for the court (1999–2011), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: State v. Bonicard (82 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. 28 of these were attributed to Kirby 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
1999	State v. Bonicard	752 So. 2d 184	82
2000	State v. Ricard	751 So. 2d 393	49
1999	State v. Guy	737 So. 2d 231	48
2010	State v. James	32 So. 3d 993	45
2000	State v. Jones	769 So. 2d 28	38
1999	State v. Ross	743 So. 2d 757	37
2009	State v. Stukes	19 So. 3d 1233	36
2005	State v. Smith	913 So. 2d 836	32
2000	State v. Hall	775 So. 2d 52	32
2002	Harvey v. Cole	808 So. 2d 771	29
2007	Graubarth v. French Market Corp.	970 So. 2d 660	27
2004	Leake & Andersson v. Sia Ins. Co.	868 So. 2d 967	24
2011	Jouve v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	74 So. 3d 220	22
2000	Sander v. Brousseau	772 So. 2d 709	22
2000	Thomas v. Desire Community Housing Corp.	773 So. 2d 755	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 288 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 Michael Kirby on?: Michael Kirby 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).