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 2010 / Active

Rose Ledet

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Rose Ledet is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ledet authored 337 published opinions for the court (2012–2026), plus 26 dissents and 46 concurrences. Most cited: Roadrunner Transportation Systems v. Brown (86 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. 406 of these were attributed to Ledet 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
2017	Roadrunner Transportation Systems v. Brown†	219 So. 3d 1265	86
2013	Mandina, Inc. v. O'Brien†	156 So. 3d 99	61
2014	Chapital v. Harry Kelleher & Co.†	144 So. 3d 75	60
2015	Felix v. Safeway Insurance Co.†	183 So. 3d 627	49
2016	Jones v. Stewart†	203 So. 3d 384	44
2016	N. Clark, L.L.C. v. Chisesi†	206 So. 3d 1013	42
2012	Ames v. Ohle†	97 So. 3d 386	38
2013	Orleans Parish School Board v. Lexington Insurance Co.†	118 So. 3d 1203	37
2013	State v. Hall†	127 So. 3d 30	36
2015	Chatelain v. Fluor Daniel Construction Co.†	179 So. 3d 791	35
2015	State v. Wilson†	165 So. 3d 1150	33
2015	Abbott v. New Orleans Police Department†	165 So. 3d 191	28
2015	Miralda v. Gonzalez†	160 So. 3d 998	28
2013	State v. Brown†	115 So. 3d 564	27
2012	Jones v. Capitol Enterprises, Inc.†	89 So. 3d 474	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 409 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 Rose Ledet on?: Rose Ledet is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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16 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).