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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1945 / Served to 1946

Robert F. Kennon

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Robert F. Kennon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1945. He previously served on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1988
Tenure: 1945–1946 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–
1945	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Kennon authored 242 published opinions for the court (1945–1952), plus 13 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: West v. Ray (75 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. 85 of these were attributed to Kennon 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
1946	West v. Ray	26 So. 2d 221	75
1946	Jackson v. State Farm Mut. Automobile Ins. Co.	29 So. 2d 177	50
1951	Rosier v. State	50 So. 2d 31	28
1945	State v. Calvin	24 So. 2d 467	28
1951	Gandy v. Arrant	50 So. 2d 676	27
1949	Louisiana Fire Ins. Co. v. Royal Indemnity Co.	38 So. 2d 807	27
1949	Ellington v. Walgreen Louisiana Co.	38 So. 2d 177	27
1946	Rudnick v. Union Producing Co.	25 So. 2d 906	24
1951	Caldwell v. Caldwell	55 So. 2d 258	22
1946	State v. Green	26 So. 2d 487	20
1945	O'Brien v. State Mineral Board	24 So. 2d 470	20
1945	Keller v. Haas	24 So. 2d 610	20
1950	Singley v. Thomas	49 So. 2d 465	19
1946	Goode v. Hantz	25 So. 2d 604	19
1949	Monroe Air Park No. 1 v. American Aviation Gen.	41 So. 2d 795	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 261 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 Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Robert F. Kennon on?: Robert F. Kennon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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1 year on the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).