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 1962 / Served to 1974

William A. Woods

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

William A. Woods was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1962. He previously served on the Supreme Court of Indiana. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1962–1974 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1881	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–
1962	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Wabash College

Judicial Record

In our data, Woods authored 404 published opinions for the court (1881–1962), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Masonic Mutual Benefit Ass'n v. Beck (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. 411 of these were attributed to Woods 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
1881	Masonic Mutual Benefit Ass'n v. Beck†	77 Ind. 203	74
1881	Martin v. Martin†	74 Ind. 207	73
1881	Reissner v. Oxley†	80 Ind. 580	72
1881	Stoddard v. Johnson†	75 Ind. 20	67
1881	Grusenmeyer v. City of Logansport†	76 Ind. 549	65
1881	Cairo & Vincennes R. R. v. Stevens†	73 Ind. 278	62
1881	Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor of the World v. Johnson†	78 Ind. 110	58
1881	Garfield v. State†	74 Ind. 60	55
1882	Haymond v. Saucer†	84 Ind. 3	45
1881	Davis v. Hardy†	76 Ind. 272	45
1882	Welz v. Rhodius†	87 Ind. 1	41
1882	City of Indianapolis v. McAvoy†	86 Ind. 587	36
1881	Stevens v. City of Logansport†	76 Ind. 498	36
1881	Parker v. Hubble†	75 Ind. 580	36
1881	Fay v. Burditt†	81 Ind. 433	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 411 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 William A. Woods on?: William A. Woods was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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12 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).