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 2008 / Active

Paul A. Bonin

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Paul A. Bonin is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal (50 judges, selected by partisan election), serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bonin authored 255 published opinions for the court (2008–2016), plus 34 dissents and 66 concurrences. Most cited: Favrot v. Favrot (213 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. 282 of these were attributed to Bonin 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
2011	Favrot v. Favrot†	68 So. 3d 1099	213
2014	Board of Supervisors v. Mid City Holdings, L.L.C.†	151 So. 3d 908	79
2010	New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc. v. Kirksey	40 So. 3d 394	54
2010	State ex rel. D.R.†	50 So. 3d 927	50
2009	Watters v. Department of Social Services· Concurrence†	15 So. 3d 1128	48
2014	Scott v. Zaheri†	157 So. 3d 779	46
2012	Yokum v. Pat O'Brien's Bar, Inc.†	99 So. 3d 74	46
2011	State v. Rubens· Concurrence†	83 So. 3d 30	41
2010	State v. Sorden	45 So. 3d 181	39
2013	State v. Schmolke†	108 So. 3d 296	38
2015	Tsegaye v. City of New Orleans†	183 So. 3d 705	35
2009	Lalla v. Calamar, N.V.	5 So. 3d 927	32
2016	Construction Diva, L.L.C. v. New Orleans Aviation Board†	206 So. 3d 1029	31
2011	Palumbo v. Shapiro†	81 So. 3d 923	31
2013	State v. Tran†	115 So. 3d 672	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 355 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 is Paul A. Bonin on?: Paul A. Bonin is 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).