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 / Served to 1999

Robert Lobrano

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Robert Lobrano was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1981–1999 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Lobrano authored 591 published opinions for the court (1982–2008), plus 10 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bienemy (158 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. 294 of these were attributed to Lobrano 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. Bienemy	483 So. 2d 1105	158
1992	State v. Sparrow	612 So. 2d 191	154
1984	Oller v. Sharp Elec., Inc.	451 So. 2d 1235	60
1994	Clement v. Griffin	634 So. 2d 412	59
1998	Andry v. Murphy Oil, USA, Inc.	710 So. 2d 1126	50
1991	State v. Dobson	578 So. 2d 533	49
1996	Zatarain v. WDSU-Television, Inc.	673 So. 2d 1181	45
1984	State v. Nelson	449 So. 2d 161	40
1992	Phoenix Assur. Co. of NY v. Shell Oil Co.	611 So. 2d 709	39
1983	Plemer v. Plemer	436 So. 2d 1348	38
1994	Juneau v. Strawmyer	647 So. 2d 1294	36
1991	Loyola v. a Touch of Class Transp. Serv. Inc.	580 So. 2d 506	35
1983	Aramburo v. Travelers Ins. Co.	426 So. 2d 260	34
1989	Tallo v. Stroh Brewery Co.	544 So. 2d 452	32
1985	Lemeshewsky v. Dumaine	464 So. 2d 973	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 633 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 Lobrano on?: Robert Lobrano was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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18 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).