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 2001 / Served to 2012

Walter Rothschild

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Walter Rothschild was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2012 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of New Orleans

Judicial Record

In our data, Rothschild authored 432 published opinions for the court (2001–2012), plus 7 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Turner (74 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. 170 of these were attributed to Rothschild 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
2010	State v. Turner	47 So. 3d 455	74
2002	State v. Williams	833 So. 2d 497	69
2001	State v. Haywood	783 So. 2d 568	64
2005	State v. Lewis	917 So. 2d 583	49
2011	State v. Flores	66 So. 3d 1118	44
2001	State v. Gaal	800 So. 2d 938	44
2007	Bertoniere v. Jefferson Parish Hospital Service District No. 2†	972 So. 2d 328	42
2007	State v. Allen	955 So. 2d 742	42
2009	State v. Horton	28 So. 3d 370	39
2004	State v. Uloho	875 So. 2d 918	38
2003	State v. Zeringue	862 So. 2d 186	38
2006	State v. Morgan	948 So. 2d 199	32
2011	State v. Miller†	83 So. 3d 178	31
2002	State v. Ventress	817 So. 2d 377	30
2007	Oubre v. Louisiana Citizens Fair Plan	961 So. 2d 504	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 441 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 Rothschild on?: Walter Rothschild was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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11 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).