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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1935 / Active

William T. Westerfield

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

William T. Westerfield is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1935 · 91 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Florida State University
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Westerfield authored 651 published opinions for the court (1923–1994), plus 34 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Rome v. London & Lancashire Indemnity Co. of America (75 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. 6 of these were attributed to Westerfield 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
1936	Rome v. London & Lancashire Indemnity Co. of America· Concurrence	169 So. 132	75
1941	Joynes v. Valloft Dreaux· Dissent	1 So. 2d 108	41
1934	Bougon v. Volunteers of America	151 So. 797	37
1936	Messina v. Societe Francaise De Bienfaissance Et D'Assistance Mutuelle De La Nouvelle Orleans	170 So. 801	32
1940	Greeves v. S. H. Kress Co.	198 So. 171	31
1939	Powell v. L. Feibleman & Co.	187 So. 130	31
1939	Haeuser v. &198tna Casualty Surety Co.	187 So. 684	29
1939	Jones v. American Mut. Liability Ins. Co.· Dissent	189 So. 169	28
1933	Selser v. Bragmans Bluff Lumber Co., Inc.· Concurrence	146 So. 690	28
1923	Cooper v. Blanck	39 So. 2d 352	27
1945	Butzman v. Delta Shipbuilding Co.	21 So. 2d 80	26
1933	Castay v. Katz & Besthoff, Ltd.	148 So. 76	26
1937	Davidson v. American Drug Stores, Inc.	175 So. 157	25
1943	Vinson v. Picolo	15 So. 2d 778	24
1994	Dubin v. Dubin	641 So. 2d 1036	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 698 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 William T. Westerfield on?: William T. Westerfield is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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91 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).