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 2004 / Active

Roland Belsome

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Roland Belsome is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Belsome authored 475 published opinions for the court (2004–2026), plus 62 dissents and 86 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Barbour (45 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. 488 of these were attributed to Belsome 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
2010	State v. Barbour· Concurrence†	35 So. 3d 1142	45
2010	State v. James· Concurrence†	32 So. 3d 993	45
2008	MacFarlane v. SCHNEIDER NAT. BULK CARRIERS	984 So. 2d 185	34
2013	Zeigler v. Housing Authority of New Orleans†	118 So. 3d 442	32
2006	State v. Holmes	931 So. 2d 1157	32
2008	South East Auto Dea. Ren. v. Ez Rent to Own	980 So. 2d 89	31
2007	Systems Engineering v. Science & Engineer.	962 So. 2d 1089	29
2007	State v. Brazile	960 So. 2d 333	28
2013	State v. Hamdalla· Dissent†	126 So. 3d 619	26
2013	Duhon v. Briley†	117 So. 3d 253	25
2011	Widder v. Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.†	82 So. 3d 294	24
2015	State v. Powell†	179 So. 3d 721	21
2010	Moody v. Cummings· Concurrence†	37 So. 3d 1054	21
2010	Guillot v. Daimlerchrysler Corp.	50 So. 3d 173	20
2009	State v. Harvey	12 So. 3d 496	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 623 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 Roland Belsome on?: Roland Belsome is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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22 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).