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 1972 / Served to 1984

Preston Hufft

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Preston Hufft was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1972–1984 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Hufft authored 41 published opinions for the court (1973–1990). Most cited: State v. Landry (92 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. 2 of these were attributed to Hufft 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
1986	State v. Landry	499 So. 2d 1320	92
1990	Hines v. Bick	566 So. 2d 455	36
1990	Harris v. Tenneco Oil Co.	563 So. 2d 317	26
1973	Cambrice v. Fern Supply Co., Inc.	285 So. 2d 863	23
1986	State v. Maresco	495 So. 2d 311	22
1974	Dunlap v. Chrysler Motors Corp.	299 So. 2d 495	21
1988	State v. Woods	526 So. 2d 443	20
1990	State v. Jones	557 So. 2d 352	19
1990	State v. Gurley	565 So. 2d 1055	16
1990	Obiago v. MERRILL-NATIONAL LABORATORY	560 So. 2d 625	13
1986	State v. Barnes	495 So. 2d 310	13
1989	State v. Nasworthy	542 So. 2d 715	12
1989	Griffin v. Schwegmann Bros. Giant Supermarkets, Inc.	542 So. 2d 710	12
1986	State v. Fraley	499 So. 2d 1304	12
1986	State v. Fernandez	489 So. 2d 345	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 Preston Hufft on?: Preston Hufft was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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12 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).