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 2014

Randolph Parro

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

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

Tenure: 1993–2014 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Parro authored 329 published opinions for the court (1993–2014), plus 12 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. McKnight v. State (104 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. 169 of these were attributed to Parro 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
1998	State Ex Rel. McKnight v. State	742 So. 2d 894	104
2000	Gaylord Chemical Corp. v. ProPump, Inc.	753 So. 2d 349	54
2002	Johnson v. Evan Hall Sugar Co-Op., Inc.	836 So. 2d 484	53
1996	STATE THRU. LOUISIANA RIVERBOAT GAMING COM'N v. Louisiana State Police Riverboat Gaming Enforcement Div.	694 So. 2d 316	47
2000	Paul v. LOUISIANA STATE EMPLOYEES'GROUP	762 So. 2d 136	42
1996	Moore v. Safeway, Inc.	700 So. 2d 831	40
1995	Jones v. Phelps	665 So. 2d 30	39
2000	State v. Henderson	762 So. 2d 747	36
2008	Monterrey Center, LLC v. Ed.ucation Partners, Inc.†	5 So. 3d 225	32
1998	Robertson v. Northshore Regional Medical Center	723 So. 2d 460	30
2002	Palace Prop. v. Sizeler Hammond Square Par.	839 So. 2d 82	28
1995	Willey v. Roberts	664 So. 2d 1371	28
2010	Suprun v. Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance†	40 So. 3d 261	26
1999	INS. STORAGE POOL v. Parish Nat. Bank	732 So. 2d 815	26
2000	State v. Young	764 So. 2d 998	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 350 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 Randolph Parro on?: Randolph Parro was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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21 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).