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 2009

Moon Landrieu

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

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

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1992–2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Loyola University New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans

Judicial Record

In our data, Landrieu authored 180 published opinions for the court (1992–2009), plus 10 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Oakley v. Thebault (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. 72 of these were attributed to Landrieu 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
1996	Oakley v. Thebault	684 So. 2d 488	120
2004	State v. Landry	871 So. 2d 1235	97
1998	State v. Francis	715 So. 2d 457	93
1994	Jasmin v. HNV Cent. Riverfront Corp.	642 So. 2d 311	57
1999	State v. Jones	731 So. 2d 389	55
1997	Schwarz v. ADMINISTRATORS TUL. EDUC. FUND	699 So. 2d 895	48
1995	State v. Johnson	660 So. 2d 942	41
1999	Fairbanks v. Tulane University	731 So. 2d 983	38
2004	Smith v. State Farm Ins. Companies	869 So. 2d 909	33
1996	State v. Cossee	678 So. 2d 72	32
2008	Clarkston v. LA. FARM BUREAU CAS. INS. CO.	989 So. 2d 164	31
1992	State v. Campbell	606 So. 2d 38	25
1998	Staehle v. Department of Police	723 So. 2d 1031	23
1997	Saacks v. City of New Orleans	687 So. 2d 432	23
1999	State v. Webster	746 So. 2d 799	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 202 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 Moon Landrieu on?: Moon Landrieu was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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17 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).