The Indiana Supreme Court, established by Article 7 of the Indiana Constitution, is the highest judicial authority in the state of Indiana. Located in Indianapolis, the Court's chambers are in the north wing of the Indiana Statehouse.
Curtis Grover Shake, a noted Indiana jurist and politician, author, and a member of the Indiana Senate, is best known for his service as the 72nd justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 4, 1938, to January 7, 1945, and as the presiding civilian judge over the IG Farben trial, one of the Nuremberg trials the United States convened at Nuremberg, Germany, in 1947–48, following World War II.
Lorna Elizabeth Lockwood was an American lawyer and judge who served as justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
Yvette McGee Brown became the first African-American female justice on the Ohio Supreme Court when she took office on January 1, 2011. She was the founding president of the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Nationwide Children's Hospital, and was a judge of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas for nine years.
The Indiana University Maurer School of Law is located on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The school is named after Michael S. "Mickey" Maurer, an Indianapolis businessman and 1967 alumnus who donated $35 million in 2008. From its founding in 1842 until Maurer's donation, the school was known as the Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington.
Noma D. Gurich is an American attorney and jurist who is serving as an associate justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Gurich was appointed the State's highest court by Governor Brad Henry in 2010 and assumed office on February 15, 2011. Gurich was appointed to the Court following the death of long-time Justice Marian P. Opala. Gurich is the third woman in state history after Alma Wilson and Yvonne Kauger to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
Beth Robinson is an American lawyer and judge from Vermont. She is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is the first openly lesbian judge to serve on any Circuit Court. Robinson served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 2011 to 2021.
Frank Nelson Richman was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 6, 1941, to January 6, 1947. Richman also participated as a judge in the Nuremberg trials, as one of the judges of the Flick trial.
Fred Carl Gause was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from November 1, 1923 to January 5, 1925.
Frederick Eugene Rakestraw was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 7, 1966 to January 2, 1967.
Harold Edward Achor was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 3, 1955 to December 12, 1966.
Leonard J. Hackney was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 2, 1893 to January 2, 1899.
Louis Blasdel Ewbank was an American lawyer, politician, judge, and jurist. He served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 1, 1920 to January 3, 1927. He was considered by President Warren G. Harding as a potential nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Norman Frank Arterburn was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from May 23, 1955 to May 13, 1977.
Roger Owen DeBruler was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from September 30, 1968 to August 8, 1996.
Walter Dennis Myers Jr. was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 7, 1963 until his death on June 2, 1967.
Alma Bell Wilson was an Oklahoma attorney who was appointed as the second female district judge in the state of Oklahoma in 1975. In 1982, she was elevated as the first woman to serve on the Oklahoma Supreme Court and between 1995 and 1997 was the first woman chief justice. Wilson was honored by many awards in her lifetime including induction into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and was named Appellate Judge of the Year in both 1986 and 1989.
Antoinette Dakin Leach was an American lawyer and a women's rights pioneer who was an active organizer on behalf of women's suffrage in Indiana. When the Greene-Sullivan Circuit Court denied Leach's petition for admission to the bar in 1893, her successful appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court, In re Petition of Leach, broke the gender barrier for admission to the bar in Indiana, securing the right for women to practice law in the state. The landmark decision, a progressive one for the time, also set a precedent that was used in 1897 as a test case to give Indiana women the right to vote, although the voting rights challenge in Gougar v Timberlake was unsuccessful. Leach was also an active politician and a supporter of women's suffrage who favored a constitutional amendment to secure women's right to vote.
Derek Read Molter is an American lawyer from Indiana who serves as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court after being appointed by Governor Eric Holcomb. He previously served as a judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals from 2021 to 2022.
