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 1992 / Served to 2002

Miriam Waltzer

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Miriam Waltzer was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–2002 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Waltzer authored 356 published opinions for the court (1992–2002), plus 6 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Oliver (58 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. 184 of these were attributed to Waltzer 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. Oliver	752 So. 2d 911	58
2001	Sun Drilling Products Corp. v. Rayborn	798 So. 2d 1141	52
1999	State v. Bordes	738 So. 2d 143	51
1996	Denta-Max v. Maxicare Louisiana, Inc.	671 So. 2d 995	40
1999	State v. Dennis	753 So. 2d 296	37
1999	Davis v. Hibernia Nat. Bank	732 So. 2d 61	36
1993	Richoux v. Tulane Medical Center	617 So. 2d 13	33
1999	Jackson v. America's Favorite Chicken Co.	729 So. 2d 1060	32
2001	State v. Miller	792 So. 2d 104	30
1999	State v. Littles	742 So. 2d 735	27
1999	State v. Smiley	729 So. 2d 743	27
2002	State v. Santee	834 So. 2d 533	26
1995	SECURITY CENTER PROTECTION SERV., INC. v. All-Pro Security, Inc.	650 So. 2d 1206	26
1992	Smith v. Two\	606 So. 2d 804	26
1993	Fontaine v. Roman Catholic Church	625 So. 2d 548	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 369 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 Miriam Waltzer on?: Miriam Waltzer was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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10 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).