The following is a lists of member of the Indiana Supreme Court. The court was founded in 1816 with the ratification of the Constitution of Indiana

Constitution of Indiana

There have been two Constitutions of the State of Indiana. The first constitution was created when the Territory of Indiana sent forty-three delegates to a constitutional convention on June 10, 1816 to establish a constitution for the proposed State of Indiana after the United States Congress had...

. The court has varied in size having between three and five members serving at the same time.

Supreme Court Justices in 2011

Name	Term Start	Term Expires	Notes
Randall Shepard	September 6, 1985	September 6, 2015
Brent Dickson	January 6, 1986	January 6, 2016
Steven H. David	October 18, 2010
Theodore Boehm	August 8, 1996	August 8, 2016
Robert Rucker	November 19, 1999	November 19, 2009

Appointment of Justices

Justices served seven years terms and were appointed by the Governor of Indiana

Governor of Indiana

The Governor of Indiana is the chief executive of the state of Indiana. The governor is elected to a four-year term, and responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of the functions of many agencies of the Indiana state government. The governor also shares power with other statewide...

 and confirmed by the Indiana Senate

Indiana Senate

The Indiana Senate is the upper house of the Indiana General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Indiana. The Senate is composed of 50 members representing an equal number of constituent districts. Senators serve four-year terms without term limits...

 from 1816 until 1851. 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

Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission

The Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission, which also serves as the Indiana Judicial Qualifications Commission, is a seven member panel chosen by the Indiana Bar Association and the Governor of Indiana to select judges to serve on the Indiana Circuit Court, Indiana Court of Appeals, and the...

 and one is appointed by the Governor. Justices are then 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

#	Name	Term Start	Term End	Days in Office	Notes
1	John Johnson	December 28, 1816	September 10, 1817	256
2	James Scott	December 28, 1816	December 28, 1830	5113
3	Jesse Holman	December 28, 1816	December 28, 1830	5113
4	Isaac Blackford Isaac Blackford Isaac Newton Blackford was the second Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, the court's longest serving Justice, and among the longest serving jurists in the history of the United States. He wrote an eight volume work entitled Blackford's Reports recording all the early decisions of the court...	September 10, 1817	January 3, 1853	12899
5	Stephen Stevens	January 28, 1831	May 30, 1836	1949
6	John McKinney	January 28, 1831	May 29, 1837	2313
7	Charles Dewey	May 30, 1836	January 29, 1847	3896
8	Jeremiah Sullivan Jeremiah Sullivan Jeremiah C. Sullivan was a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1836–1846 and coined the name "Indianapolis" for the new state capital....	May 29, 1837	January 21, 1846	3159
9	Samuel Perkins	January 1, 1877	December 17, 1879	8002
9	Samuel Perkins	January 21, 1846	January 3, 1865	8002
10	Thomas Smith	January 29, 1847	January 3, 1853	2166
11	Andrew Davison	January 3, 1853	January 3, 1865	4383
12	Addison Roache	January 3, 1853	May 8, 1854	490
13	William Stuart	January 3, 1853	January 3, 1858	1826
14	Alvin Hovey	May 8, 1854	January 1, 1855	581
15	Samuel Gookins	January 1, 1855	December 10, 1857	731
16	James Hanna	December 10, 1857	January 3, 1865	2581
17	James Worden	January 16, 1858	January 3, 1865	6895
17	James Worden	January 3, 1871	December 2, 1882	6895
18	James Frazer	January 3, 1865	January 3, 1871	2191
19	Jehu Elliott	January 3, 1865	January 3, 1871	2191
20	Charles Ray	January 3, 1865	January 3, 1871	2191
21	Robert Gregory	January 3, 1865	January 3, 1871	2191
22	John Pettit John Pettit John Pettit was a United States Representative and Senator from Indiana.Born in Sackets Harbor, New York, he completed preparatory studies and admitted to the bar in 1831...	January 3, 1871	January 1, 1877	2192
23	Alexander Downey	January 3, 1871	January 1, 1877	2190
24	Samuel Buskirk Samuel Hamilton Buskirk Samuel Hamilton Buskirk was a lawyer, politician, and justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana....	January 3, 1871	January 1, 1877	2190
25	Andrew Osborn	December 16, 1872	January 4, 1875	749
26	Horace P. Biddle Horace P. Biddle Horace Peters Biddle was a lawyer, judge, poet, musicologist, and famous hermit....	January 4, 1875	January 3, 1881	2191
27	William Niblack	January 1, 1877	January 7, 1889	4389
28	George Howk	January 1, 1877	January 7, 1889	4389
29	John Scott	December 29, 1879	January 5, 1881	373
30	Byron Elliott	January 3, 1881	January 2, 1893	4382
31	William Woods	January 3, 1881	May 8, 1883	855
32	William Combs	December 2, 1882	January 1, 1883	30
33	Allen Zollars	January 1, 1883	January 7, 1889	2198
34	Edwin Hammond	May 14, 1883	January 6, 1885	603
35	Joseph Mitchell	January 6, 1885	December 12, 1890	2166
36	Silas Coffey	January 7, 1889	January 7, 1895	2191
37	Walter Olds	January 7, 1889	June 15, 1893	1620
38	John Berkshire	January 17, 1889	February 19, 1891	763
39	Robert McBride	December 17, 1890	January 2, 1893	747
40	John Miller	February 25, 1891	January 2, 1893	677
41	Leonard Hackney	January 2, 1893	January 2, 1899	2191
42	James McCabe	January 2, 1893	January 2, 1899	2191
43	Timothy Howard	January 2, 1893	January 2, 1899	2191
44	Joseph Dailey	June 25, 1893	January 7, 1895	531
45	James Jordan	January 7, 1895	April 10, 1912	6303
46	Leander Monks	January 7, 1895	January 7, 1913	6575
47	Alexander Dowling	January 2, 1899	January 2, 1905	2192
48	John Hadley	January 2, 1899	January 2, 1911	4383
49	Francis Elisha Baker Francis Elisha Baker Francis Elisha Baker was a United States federal judge.Born in Goshen, Indiana, Baker received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1882 and read law to enter the Bar in 1884. He was in private practice in Goshen, Indiana from 1884 to 1899...	January 2, 1899	January 25, 1902	1119
50	John Gillett	January 25, 1902	January 4, 1909	2536
51	Oscar Montgomery	January 2, 1905	January 2, 1911	2191
52	Quincy Myers	January 4, 1909	January 4, 1915	2191
53	John Spencer	April 15, 1912	January 7, 1918	2093
54	Douglas Morris	January 2, 1911	January 1, 1917	2191
55	Charles E. Cox Charles E. Cox Charles E. Cox was an American lawyer and judge who became the 55th justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, serving from 1911 to 1917. Elected as a Democrat in the Fall of 1910, he was Chief Justice by the end of his six-year term...	January 2, 1911	January 1, 1917	2191
56	Richard Erwin	January 6, 1913	October 15, 1918	2108
57	Moses Lairy	January 4, 1915	January 3, 1921	2191
58	David Myers	January 1, 1917	December 31, 1934	6573
59	Lawson Harvey	January 1, 1917	June 25, 1920	1271
60	Howard Townsend	October 5, 1917	November 1, 1923	2218
61	Benjamin Willoughby	January 6, 1919	January 7, 1931	4384
62	Louis Ewbank	January 1, 1920	January 3, 1927	2559
63	Julius Travis	January 3, 1921	January 3, 1933	4383
64	Fred Gause	November 1, 1923	January 5, 1925	431
65	Willard Gemmill	January 5, 1925	January 4, 1931	2190
66	Clarence Martin	January 3, 1927	January 3, 1933	2192
67	Curtis Roll	January 5, 1931	January 4, 1943	4382
68	Walter Treanor	January 8, 1931	December 27, 1937	2545
69	Michael Fansler	January 4, 1933	January 1, 1945	4380
70	James Hughes	January 3, 1933	January 1, 1939	2189
71	George Tremain	January 1, 1935	December 31, 1940	2191
72	Curtis Shake Curtis Shake Curtis Grover Shake was a noted Indiana jurist, politician, and 72nd Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, serving from 1938 to 1946...	January 4, 1938	January 7, 1946	2925
73	H. Nathan Swaim	January 1, 1939	January 1, 1945	2192
74	Frank Richman	January 6, 1941	January 6, 1947	2191
75	Mart O'Malley	January 4, 1943	January 3, 1949	2191
76	Howard Young, Sr.	January 1, 1945	January 1, 1951	2191
77	Oliver Starr	January 1, 1945	January 1, 1951	2191
78	Frank Gilkison	January 1, 1945	February 25, 1955	3707
79	James Emmert	January 6, 1947	January 5, 1959	4381
80	Paul Jasper	January 3, 1949	March 31, 1953	1548
81	Arch Bobbitt	January 2, 1951	January 7, 1963	4388
82	Floyd Draper	January 2, 1951	January 10, 1955	1469
83	Dan Flanagan	April 1, 1953	December 31, 1954	639
84	Harold Achor	January 3, 1955	December 12, 1966	4361
85	Isadore Levine	January 13, 1955	May 23, 1955	130
86	George Henley	March 15, 1955	May 23, 1955	69
87	Frederick Landis, Jr.	May 23, 1955	November 8, 1965	3822
88	Norman Arterburn	May 23, 1955	May 13, 1977	8026
89	Amos Jackson	January 5, 1959	January 4, 1971	4382
90	Walter Myers, Jr.	January 7, 1963	June 2, 1967	1607
91	Frederick Rakestraw	January 7, 1966	January 2, 1967	360
92	Donald Mote	January 3, 1967	September 17, 1968	623
93	David Lewis	June 21, 1967	January 6, 1969	565
94	Donald Hunter	January 2, 1967	September 6, 1985	6822
95	Roger DeBruler	September 30, 1968	August 8, 1996	10174
96	Richard M. Givan Richard M. Givan Richard M. Givan served as the 96th Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from January 6, 1969 until his retirement December 31, 1994. He served as Chief Justice from 1974 until March 1987.-Early life:...	January 6, 1969	December 31, 1994	9125
97	Dixon Prentice	January 4, 1971	January 6, 1986	5481
98	Alfred Pivarnik	May 13, 1977	December 14, 1990	4963
99	Randall Shepard	September 6, 1985	Present	8306
100	Brent Dickson	January 6, 1986	Present	8184
101	Jon Krahulik	December 14, 1990	October 31, 1993	1052
102	Frank Sullivan, Jr.	November 1, 1993	Present	5328
103	Myra Selby	January 4, 1995	October 7, 1999	1737
104	Theodore Boehm	August 8, 1996	September 30, 2010	5166
105	Robert Rucker	November 19, 1999	Present	3119
106	Steven H. David	October 18, 2010	Present	79

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