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 2000 / Served to 2010

Robert Downing

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Robert Downing was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2010 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Downing authored 142 published opinions for the court (2001–2010), plus 6 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Emery v. Owens-Corporation (49 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. 92 of these were attributed to Downing 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
2001	Emery v. Owens-Corporation	813 So. 2d 441	49
2001	Van Ex Rel. White v. Davis	808 So. 2d 478	48
2002	Hughes v. Goodreau	836 So. 2d 649	47
2003	Duzon v. Stallworth	866 So. 2d 837	41
2001	Belanger v. Gabriel Chemicals, Inc.	787 So. 2d 559	27
2009	Graffia v. Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co.†	6 So. 3d 270	24
2001	Lassere v. STATE, DEPT. OF HEALTH & HOSP., OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH	808 So. 2d 513	23
2001	Silliman Private School Corporation v. Shareholder Group	789 So. 2d 20	22
2001	Smith v. Roussel	809 So. 2d 159	20
2007	Thibaut Oil Co. v. Holly· Concurrence†	961 So. 2d 1170	18
2001	Hull v. Fluker Farms	787 So. 2d 535	18
2001	Smith v. Roussel	808 So. 2d 726	16
2003	State ex rel. Department of Social Services v. A.P.†	858 So. 2d 498	15
2002	Hilliard v. Litchfield	822 So. 2d 743	14
2001	Critser v. Dillard's Dept. Stores, Inc.	791 So. 2d 702	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 159 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 Robert Downing on?: Robert Downing was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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10 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).