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 2010 / Active

Phyllis M. Keaty

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Phyllis M. Keaty is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Keaty authored 239 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 9 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Celestine (46 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. 237 of these were attributed to Keaty 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
2012	State v. Celestine†	91 So. 3d 573	46
2012	State ex rel. J.K.G.†	118 So. 3d 10	33
2011	Green v. NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO	63 So. 3d 354	33
2014	State v. Jackson†	146 So. 3d 631	31
2014	State v. Mayes†	154 So. 3d 1257	23
2015	Leblanc v. Bouzon†	159 So. 3d 1144	22
2015	State v. Pierre†	170 So. 3d 348	18
2013	Cook v. Family Care Services, Inc.†	121 So. 3d 1274	18
2018	State v. Aguillard†	242 So. 3d 765	14
2018	State v. Debarge†	238 So. 3d 491	14
2013	Bracey v. City of Alexandria†	115 So. 3d 1211	14
2011	Lee v. State ex rel. Department of Public Safety & Corrections†	60 So. 3d 106	14
2018	State ex rel. J.A.†	237 So. 3d 69	13
2014	Harruff v. King†	139 So. 3d 1062	13
2013	Barlow v. Barlow†	161 So. 3d 24	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 249 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 Phyllis M. Keaty on?: Phyllis M. Keaty is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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15 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).