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 2000 / Active

Terri Love

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Terri Love is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Jackson State University
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Love authored 636 published opinions for the court (2000–2024), plus 34 dissents and 50 concurrences. Most cited: Lee v. Pennington (56 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. 520 of these were attributed to Love 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
2002	Lee v. Pennington	830 So. 2d 1037	56
2009	Watters v. Department of Social Services· Concurrence†	15 So. 3d 1128	48
2001	Tillmon v. Thrasher Waterproofing	786 So. 2d 131	47
2012	D'Angelo v. Guarino†	88 So. 3d 683	44
2007	Chaisson v. Avondale Industries, Inc.	947 So. 2d 171	44
2003	Doe v. Grant	839 So. 2d 408	42
2018	Green v. Garcia-Victor†	248 So. 3d 449	32
2009	State v. Ambeau†	6 So. 3d 215	32
2004	Dufrene v. HBOS MFG., LP	872 So. 2d 1206	32
2001	Miller v. Southern Baptist Hosp.	806 So. 2d 10	32
2004	Quinn v. RISO Investments, Inc.	869 So. 2d 922	31
2003	Billieson v. City of New Orleans	863 So. 2d 557	31
2015	Davis v. Cheema, Inc.· Concurrence†	171 So. 3d 984	28
2012	State v. Hugle†	104 So. 3d 598	28
2008	Johnson v. Johnson	986 So. 2d 797	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 720 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 Terri Love on?: Terri Love is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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25 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).