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 1996 / Active

Thomas Daley

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Thomas Daley is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: Since 1996 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Judicial Record

In our data, Daley authored 382 published opinions for the court (1993–2008), plus 6 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lawson (122 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. 134 of these were attributed to Daley 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
2004	State v. Lawson	885 So. 2d 618	122
2005	State v. Corzo	896 So. 2d 1101	75
2001	State v. Badeaux	798 So. 2d 234	57
2008	State v. Dixon	982 So. 2d 146	55
2000	State v. George	751 So. 2d 973	55
2007	State v. Nguyen	958 So. 2d 61	49
2005	State v. Jackson	904 So. 2d 907	49
1999	State v. Watts	746 So. 2d 58	49
1998	State v. Bacuzzi	708 So. 2d 1065	44
2007	State v. Nicholas	958 So. 2d 682	42
2001	State v. Gordon	803 So. 2d 131	41
2008	Muller v. Carrier Corp.	984 So. 2d 883	40
2007	State v. Lagarde	960 So. 2d 1105	39
2007	Earls v. McDowell	960 So. 2d 242	39
2004	State v. Burns	877 So. 2d 1073	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 392 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 Thomas Daley on?: Thomas Daley is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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30 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).