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 1982 / Served to 2003

William H. Byrnes

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

William H. Byrnes was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–2003 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Byrnes authored 745 published opinions for the court (1982–2003), plus 20 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Walker v. Kroop (84 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. 336 of these were attributed to Byrnes 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
1996	Walker v. Kroop	678 So. 2d 580	84
1999	State v. Ash	729 So. 2d 664	70
1995	Delphen v. Dept. of Transp. & Dev.	657 So. 2d 328	67
1996	Jones v. Peyton Place, Inc.	675 So. 2d 754	52
1992	Samuels v. Southern Baptist Hosp.	594 So. 2d 571	46
2003	State v. Pham	839 So. 2d 214	45
1991	Urbeso v. Bryan	583 So. 2d 114	44
1991	Glasper v. Henry	589 So. 2d 1173	38
2001	ALLVEND v. Payphone Commissions Co., Inc.	804 So. 2d 27	36
1999	State v. Cook	733 So. 2d 1227	36
1994	State v. Kelly	639 So. 2d 888	35
2003	Saacks v. Mohawk Carpet Corp.	855 So. 2d 359	34
1999	Kelly v. West Cash & Carry Bldg. Materials	745 So. 2d 743	34
1999	Dela Vergne v. Dela Vergne, III	745 So. 2d 1271	32
2003	Bibbins v. City of New Orleans	848 So. 2d 686	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 778 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 H. Byrnes on?: William H. Byrnes was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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21 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).