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 1979 / Served to 1980

Walter O. Bigby Sr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Walter O. Bigby Sr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–1980
Tenure: 1979–1980 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Bigby authored 4 published opinions for the court (1979). Most cited: Evans v. Natchitoches Collections, Inc. (1 citation).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 4 of these were attributed to Bigby 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
1979	Evans v. Natchitoches Collections, Inc.†	378 So. 2d 1037	1
1979	Thompson v. Cheathan†	376 So. 2d 1321	1
1979	Chidlow v. Hendrick†	378 So. 2d 1047	0
1979	Hay v. Grice†	379 So. 2d 17	0

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 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 was Walter O. Bigby Sr. on?: Walter O. Bigby Sr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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1 year 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).