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 1974 / Served to 1979

Peter Hill Beer

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Peter Hill Beer was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1974. He earned a law degree from Tulane University of Louisiana in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1928 · age 98
Tenure: 1974–1979 · 5 yrs
Education: Tulane of Louisiana 1949 · Tulane of Louisiana

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana	B.B.A.	1949
Tulane University of Louisiana	LL.B.	1952

Judicial Record

In our data, Beer authored 156 published opinions for the court (1974–1979), plus 25 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: State ex rel. Black (7 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. 200 of these were attributed to Beer 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
1975	State ex rel. Black†	310 So. 2d 174	7
1975	Foster v. Soule†	310 So. 2d 170	7
1979	Cheatham v. City of New Orleans†	368 So. 2d 146	6
1975	Gennaro v. Gennaro†	323 So. 2d 513	6
1979	Tucker v. Tucker†	378 So. 2d 498	5
1979	Haik v. Rowley· Dissent†	377 So. 2d 391	5
1978	Suhor v. Gusse†	377 So. 2d 1259	5
1977	Poynot v. Pfister†	348 So. 2d 98	5
1976	Jordan v. Life General Security Insurance· Concurrence†	333 So. 2d 732	5
1979	Warriner v. Russo· Dissent†	376 So. 2d 571	4
1979	Hunt v. City Stores, Inc.· Dissent†	375 So. 2d 1194	4
1979	Jacobs v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.· Concurrence†	374 So. 2d 167	4
1979	Thomas v. Allstate Insurance· Concurrence†	367 So. 2d 1300	4
1978	State ex rel. Rotolo†	361 So. 2d 468	4
1978	Ugulano v. Allstate Insurance†	359 So. 2d 318	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 200 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 Peter Hill Beer on?: Peter Hill Beer was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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5 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).