List of justices of the Indiana Supreme Court

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The following are lists of members of the Indiana Supreme Court. Founded in 1816 with the ratification of the Constitution of Indiana, the court's size has varied between three and five members serving at the same time.

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Supreme Court justices in 2022

NameTerm startTerm expiresNotes
Loretta Rush November 7, 2012December 31, 2024
Mark Massa April 2, 2012December 31, 2024
Geoffrey G. Slaughter May 9, 2016 [1]
Christopher M. Goff July 24, 2017
Derek R. Molter September 1, 2022

Appointment of justices

From 1816 until 1851 justices served seven-year terms and were appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Indiana Senate. [2] From 1851 until 1971 justices were elected by popular vote every six years. From 1971 to the present a pool of candidates is selected by the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission and one is appointed by the governor. Justices are subject to a retention election after two years of service and, if retained, they may continue for a full term of ten years.

Previous Supreme Court justices

#NameTerm startTerm endDays in officeUndergraduate and masters LL.B./J.D. LL.M./S.J.D. Notes
1 John Johnson December 28, 1816September 10, 1817256 [3] [4]
2 James Scott December 28, 1816December 28, 18305113 Indiana University (honorary LL.D.)
3 Jesse Lynch Holman December 28, 1816December 28, 18305113
4 Isaac Blackford September 10, 1817January 3, 185312899 Princeton University [3]
5 Stephen Stevens January 28, 1831May 30, 18361949
6 John T. McKinney January 28, 1831March 4, 18372313 [4]
7 Charles Dewey May 30, 1836January 29, 18473896 Williams College Indiana University (honorary LL.D.)
8 Jeremiah Sullivan May 29, 1837January 21, 18463159 College of William & Mary
9 Samuel E. Perkins January 21, 1846January 3, 18658002 [5]
9-cont'd Samuel E. Perkins January 1, 1877December 17, 18798002 [5]
10 Thomas Smith January 29, 1847January 3, 18532166
11 Andrew Davison January 3, 1853January 3, 18654383 Jefferson College
12 Addison Roache January 3, 1853May 8, 1854490 Indiana University
13 William Z. Stuart January 3, 1853January 3, 18581826 Amherst College
14 Alvin Hovey May 8, 1854January 1, 1855581 [6]
15 Samuel Gookins January 1, 1855December 10, 1857731
16 James Hanna December 10, 1857January 3, 18652581 [7]
17 James Worden January 16, 1858January 3, 18656895 [5]
17-cont'd James Worden January 3, 1871December 2, 18826895 [5]
18 James S. Frazer January 3, 1865January 3, 18712191
19 Jehu Elliott January 3, 1865January 3, 18712191
20 Charles Ray January 3, 1865January 3, 18712191
21 Robert Gregory January 3, 1865January 3, 18712191
22 John Pettit January 3, 1871January 1, 18772192 [8]
23 Alexander Downey January 3, 1871January 1, 18772190County Seminary (Wilmington, OH)
24 Samuel Buskirk January 3, 1871January 1, 18772190Indiana University
25 Andrew L. Osborn December 16, 1872January 4, 1875749
26 Horace P. Biddle January 4, 1875January 3, 18812191
27 William Niblack January 1, 1877January 7, 18894389Indiana University
28 George Howk January 1, 1877January 7, 18894389 Indiana Asbury University
29 John T. Scott December 29, 1879January 5, 1881373 Franklin College
30 Byron Elliott January 3, 1881January 2, 18934382Marion County Seminary
31 William Allen Woods January 3, 1881May 8, 1883855 Wabash College
32 William H. Coombs December 2, 1882January 1, 188330
33 Allen Zollars January 1, 1883January 7, 18892198 Denison University (B.A./M.A.) Denison University (LL.D.)/University of Michigan Law School
34 Edwin Hammond May 14, 1883January 6, 1885603Indiana Asbury University (LL.B.)
35 Joseph Mitchell January 6, 1885December 12, 18902166
36 Silas Coffey January 7, 1889January 7, 18952191Indiana University
37 Walter Olds January 7, 1889June 15, 18931620Capital University Ohio State University
38 John Berkshire January 17, 1889February 19, 1891763 Indiana Asbury University
39 Robert McBride December 17, 1890January 2, 1893747
40 John Miller February 25, 1891January 2, 1893677 Hanover College
41 Leonard Hackney January 2, 1893January 2, 18992191
42 James McCabe January 2, 1893January 2, 18992191
43 Timothy Howard January 2, 1893January 2, 18992191 University of Michigan/University of Notre Dame (A.B./A.M.) Notre Dame Law School
44 Joseph S. Dailey June 25, 1893January 7, 1895531 Indiana University Maurer School of Law
45 James Jordan January 7, 1895April 10, 19126303Wabash College/Indiana UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law
46 Leander Monks January 7, 1895January 7, 19136575Indiana University
47 Alexander Dowling January 2, 1899January 2, 19052192
48 John V. Hadley January 2, 1899January 2, 19114383 Northwestern Christian University of Indianapolis Indianapolis Law School
49 Francis E. Baker January 2, 1899January 25, 19021119Indiana University/University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan Law School
50 John H. Gillett January 25, 1902January 4, 19092536
51 Oscar H. Montgomery January 2, 1905January 2, 19112191Hanover College (B.A./M.A.)
52 Quincy Alden Myers January 4, 1909January 4, 19152191Northwestern Christian University of Indianapolis/Dartmouth College Union Law School
53 John W. Spencer April 15, 1912January 7, 19192093 Central Normal College
54 Douglas J. Morris January 2, 1911January 1, 19172191Indiana Asbury University
55 Charles E. Cox January 2, 1911January 1, 19172191 [3]
56 Richard K. Erwin January 6, 1913October 15, 19182108 Methodist College
57 Moses Lairy January 4, 1915January 3, 19212191 Northern Indiana Normal School University of Michigan Law School
58 David Myers January 1, 1917December 31, 19346573Smithson College/Central Normal College/Union University Union Law School
59 Lawson Harvey January 1, 1917June 25, 19201271 Butler University/Haverford College Central Law School
60 Howard L. Townsend October 5, 1917November 1, 19232218 Bethany College (West Virginia) Chicago-Kent College of Law
61 Benjamin Willoughby January 6, 1919January 7, 19314384 Cincinnati College
62 Louis Ewbank January 1, 1920January 3, 19272559
63 Julius Travis January 3, 1921January 3, 19334383University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan Law School
64 Fred Gause November 1, 1923January 5, 1925431Indiana University Maurer School of Law
65 Willard Gemmill January 5, 1925January 4, 19312190 DePauw University Indiana Law School
66 Clarence R. Martin January 3, 1927January 3, 19332192University of MichiganIndiana Law School
67 Curtis Roll January 5, 1931January 4, 19434382Indiana UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law
68 Walter Treanor January 8, 1931December 27, 19372545Indiana UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law Harvard Law School (S.J.D.)
69 Michael Fansler January 4, 1933January 1, 19454380University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Law School
70 James P. Hughes January 3, 1933January 1, 19392189DePauw UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law
71 George Tremain January 1, 1935December 31, 19402191Central Normal CollegeIndiana Law School
72 Curtis Shake January 4, 1938January 7, 19462925 Vincennes University Indiana University Maurer School of Law
73 Hardress Nathan Swaim January 1, 1939January 1, 19452192DePauw University University of Chicago Law School
74 Frank Richman January 6, 1941January 6, 19472191 Lake Forest College University of Chicago Law School
75 Mart O'Malley January 4, 1943January 3, 19492191 Saint Thomas College Valparaiso University School of Law
76 Howard Young Sr. January 1, 1945January 1, 19512191 University of Chicago Indiana Law School
77 Oliver Starr January 1, 1945January 1, 19512191Indiana UniversityUniversity of Michigan Law School
78 Frank Gilkison January 1, 1945February 25, 19553707Indiana University Maurer School of Law
79 James Emmert January 6, 1947January 5, 19594381 Northwestern University Harvard Law School
80 Paul G. Jasper January 3, 1949March 31, 19531548Indiana UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law
81 Arch Bobbitt January 2, 1951January 7, 19634388Central Normal College Benjamin Harrison Law School
82 Floyd Draper January 2, 1951January 10, 19551469Valparaiso University School of Law
83 Dan Flanagan April 1, 1953December 31, 1954639Butler University / University of California Benjamin Harrison Law School
84 Harold Achor January 3, 1955December 12, 19664361 Indiana Central College Indiana University Maurer School of Law
85 Isadore Levine January 13, 1955May 23, 1955130University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan Law School
86 George Henley March 15, 1955May 23, 195569Indiana UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law
87 Frederick Landis Jr. May 23, 1955November 8, 19653822Wabash CollegeIndiana University Maurer School of Law
88 Norman Arterburn May 23, 1955May 13, 19778026Indiana UniversityUniversity of Chicago Law School [3]
89 Amos W. Jackson January 5, 1959January 4, 19714382Hanover College
90 Walter Myers Jr. January 7, 1963June 2, 19671607 Yale University Yale Law School
91 Frederick Rakestraw January 7, 1966January 2, 1967360 Manchester College / Indiana UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law
92 Donald Mote January 3, 1967September 17, 1968623DePauw University / Wabash College George Washington University Law School
93 David Lewis June 21, 1967January 6, 1969565DePauw University University of Chicago Law School
94 Donald Hunter January 2, 1967September 6, 19856822Lincoln Law School (Indianapolis)
95 Roger O. DeBruler September 30, 1968August 8, 199610174Indiana UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law [9]
96 Richard M. Givan January 6, 1969December 31, 19949125Indiana University Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law [3]
97 Dixon Prentice January 4, 1971January 6, 19865481Indiana UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law
98 Alfred Pivarnik May 13, 1977December 14, 19904963 Creighton University Valparaiso University School of Law
99 Randall Shepard September 6, 1985March 23, 20128306Princeton UniversityYale Law School University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.) [3]
100 Brent Dickson January 6, 1986April 29, 201611063 Purdue University Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law [3] [3]
101 Jon Krahulik December 14, 1990October 31, 19931052Indiana UniversityIndiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
102 Frank Sullivan Jr. November 1, 1993July 31, 20126847Dartmouth CollegeIndiana University Maurer School of LawUniversity of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.)
103 Myra C. Selby January 4, 1995October 7, 19991737 Kalamazoo College University of Michigan Law School
104 Theodore Boehm August 8, 1996September 30, 20105166 Brown University Harvard Law School
105 Robert Rucker November 19, 1999May 12, 20175035 Indiana University Northwest Valparaiso University School of LawUniversity of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.)
106 Steven H. David October 18, 2010August 31, 20221049 Murray State University Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
107 Mark Massa April 2, 2012Present517Indiana UniversityIndiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
108 Loretta Rush November 7, 2012Present298Purdue UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law [3]
109 Geoffrey G. Slaughter June 13, 2016PresentIndiana UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law [3]
110 Christopher M. Goff July 24, 2017PresentBall State UniversityIndiana University Maurer School of Law

† – There is a dispute between sources on Judge Olds' education. Gugin & St. Clair, Justices of the Indiana Supreme Court at 149 (2010) states, "Olds attended Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and then read law with his brother, James." Browning, Humphrey, & Kleinschmidt. "Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices," 30 Ind. Law Review 328, 367 (1997) states, "He studied law at The Ohio State University."

Justices by school

Undergraduate and master's degrees

Current name of schoolFormer name(s) of schoolNumber of alumni
Amherst College 1
Ball State University 1
Bethany College 1
Brown University 1
Butler University Northwestern Christian University of Indianapolis5
Canterbury College (Indiana)Central Normal College4
Capital University 1†
College of William & Mary 1
County Seminary (Wilmington, OH)1
Creighton University 1
Dartmouth College 2
DePauw University Indiana Asbury University8
Franklin College (Tennessee) 1
Hanover College 3
Haverford College 1
Indiana University 19
Indiana University Northwest 1
Kalamazoo College 1
Lake Forest College 1
Manchester College 1
Marion County Seminary1
Murray State 1
Northwestern University 1
Princeton University 2
Purdue University 2
Smithson College1
Taylor University Methodist College1
Union University (New York) 1
University of California 1
University of Chicago 1
University of Indianapolis Indiana Central College1
University of Michigan 6
University of Notre Dame 2
University of Scranton Saint Thomas College1
Valparaiso University Northern Indiana Normal School1
Vincennes University 1
Wabash College 4
Washington & Jefferson College Jefferson College1
Williams College 1
Yale University 1


Masters of Laws (LL.M.) and Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.)

Current name of schoolDegreeNumber of alumni
Harvard Law School S.J.D.1
University of Virginia School of Law LL.M.3

Notes

  1. "New Supreme Court justice a 'superb lawyer'".
  2. Gugin and St. Clair, p. xiii.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Served as Chief Justice
  4. 1 2 Died in office
  5. 1 2 3 4 Served two non consecutive terms
  6. Was also Governor of Indiana
  7. Was also Lieutenant Governor of Indiana
  8. Was also a United States senator
  9. "Indiana Supreme Court Justice: Biographies:Justice Roger O. DeBruler". State of Indiana. Archived from the original on January 21, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2012.

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