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 1993 / Served to 2012

Oswald A. Decuir

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Oswald A. Decuir was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–2012 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Decuir authored 436 published opinions for the court (1993–2012), plus 6 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Fontenot (96 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. 154 of these were attributed to Decuir 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
1993	State v. Fontenot	616 So. 2d 1353	96
2002	Foster v. Rabalais Masonry, Inc.	811 So. 2d 1160	79
2005	State v. Touchet	897 So. 2d 900	54
2003	Alfred Palma, Inc. v. Crane Services, Inc.	858 So. 2d 772	51
1994	Phillips v. Fisher	634 So. 2d 1305	50
2001	Shell v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	782 So. 2d 1155	28
2008	State v. Leyva-Martinez	981 So. 2d 276	25
2005	DeSoto v. DeSoto	893 So. 2d 175	25
2000	State v. Chambers	758 So. 2d 231	21
2004	Veazie v. Gilchrist Const. Co.	878 So. 2d 742	20
2007	Guilbeaux v. Office of Dist. Attorney	957 So. 2d 959	18
2007	State v. Hawkins	956 So. 2d 146	18
2004	State v. Langley	896 So. 2d 200	18
2004	Lpc v. Larrison Family Health Center	870 So. 2d 575	18
2008	Wilson v. Paul	997 So. 2d 572	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 445 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 Oswald A. Decuir on?: Oswald A. Decuir was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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19 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).