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 1981 / Active

Robert J. Klees

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Robert J. Klees is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1981 · 45 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Klees authored 681 published opinions for the court (1981–2000), plus 6 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Benjamin (807 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. 319 of these were attributed to Klees 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
1990	State v. Benjamin	573 So. 2d 528	807
1995	State v. Young	663 So. 2d 525	209
1989	State v. Cashen	544 So. 2d 1268	100
1991	State v. Collins	584 So. 2d 356	90
1999	State v. Brooks	758 So. 2d 814	54
1999	State v. Brady	727 So. 2d 1264	54
1990	State v. Valentine	570 So. 2d 533	51
1999	State v. Lewis	736 So. 2d 1004	50
1991	Sutton v. Duplessis	584 So. 2d 362	49
1994	State v. Scull	639 So. 2d 1239	47
1994	Quick v. Murphy Oil Co.	643 So. 2d 1291	40
1999	State v. Mitchell	731 So. 2d 319	36
1999	State v. Guillard	736 So. 2d 273	33
1981	Usry v. Louisiana Department of Highways	402 So. 2d 240	33
1986	State v. Martin	483 So. 2d 1223	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 696 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 Robert J. Klees on?: Robert J. Klees is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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45 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).