Courts & rulings
Louisiana · highest court
Louisiana Supreme Court
Elected (partisan)
Chief: By seniority: the justice with the longest continuous service on the court ('oldest in point of service') serves as Chief Justice (La. Const. art. V, sec. 6)..
Justices
All judges & justices →- John L. Weimer
- Jefferson D. Hughes III
- Jay B. McCallum
- Piper D. Griffin
- John Michael Guidry
- Cade Cole
- Allison H. Penzato
Roster as of 2026-06-13.
Louisiana Constitution of 1974
Adopted 1974. Its declaration of rights sits in Article I (Declaration of Rights). This court has the final word on what the Louisiana constitution means.
Primacy, interprets its own constitution first
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).