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 1979 / Served to 2003

Ned Doucet

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Ned Doucet was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1979–2003 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doucet authored 991 published opinions for the court (1979–2003), plus 10 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Schexnaider (98 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. 577 of these were attributed to Doucet 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
2003	State v. Schexnaider	852 So. 2d 450	98
1983	State v. Goodman	427 So. 2d 529	95
2001	State v. Freeman	801 So. 2d 578	87
1990	Ward v. Tenneco Oil Co.	564 So. 2d 814	58
1984	State v. Rainwater	457 So. 2d 1280	55
1979	Conlay v. Houston General Ins. Co.	370 So. 2d 196	48
2003	Glod v. Baker	851 So. 2d 1255	47
2000	State v. Porter	761 So. 2d 115	45
1981	Wattigny v. Lambert	408 So. 2d 1126	45
2002	State v. Reed	809 So. 2d 1261	43
1984	State v. Bryan	454 So. 2d 1297	43
1980	Bordelon v. Dauzat	389 So. 2d 820	39
1979	Reeves v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.	370 So. 2d 202	39
1988	State v. Klause	525 So. 2d 1076	37
1979	Slocum v. DeWitt	374 So. 2d 755	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,002 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 Ned Doucet on?: Ned Doucet was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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24 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).