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 1985 / Active

Thomas C. Wicker Jr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Thomas C. Wicker Jr. is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1985 · 41 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Wicker authored 874 published opinions for the court (1986–2019), plus 22 dissents and 45 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Weiland (1,867 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. 587 of these were attributed to Wicker 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
1990	State v. Weiland	556 So. 2d 175	1,867
2010	Input/Output Marine Systems, Inc. v. Wilson Greatbatch, Technologies, Inc.	52 So. 3d 909	111
2007	State v. Warmack	973 So. 2d 104	55
1992	State v. Riche	608 So. 2d 639	45
1996	JW Rombach, Inc. v. Parish of Jefferson	670 So. 2d 1305	44
1995	Seagers v. Pailet	656 So. 2d 700	42
2009	State v. Williams	28 So. 3d 357	40
1995	State v. Brown	656 So. 2d 1070	40
2009	State v. Smith	20 So. 3d 501	37
2018	State v. Clifton†	248 So. 3d 691	36
2008	Hibernia Nat. Bank v. Rivera	996 So. 2d 534	36
2007	State v. King	951 So. 2d 384	35
2010	State v. Gibson	38 So. 3d 373	34
2009	State v. Holmes	10 So. 3d 274	34
1994	Orgeron v. Prescott	636 So. 2d 1033	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 942 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 C. Wicker Jr. on?: Thomas C. Wicker Jr. is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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41 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).