How do judges of the Indiana Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Indiana Court of Appeals / Joined 1969 / Served to 1973

Allen Sharp

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Allen Sharp was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1932–2009
Tenure: 1969–1973 · 4 yrs
Education: George Washington 1954

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

George Washington University	B.A.	1954
Butler University	M.A.	1986

Judicial Record

In our data, Sharp authored 52 published opinions for the court (1969–1973), plus 5 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Cornette v. Searjeant Metal Products, Inc. (101 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. 64 of these were attributed to Sharp 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
1970	Cornette v. Searjeant Metal Products, Inc.· Concurrence†	258 N.E.2d 652	101
1970	Indiana Insurance v. Noble Ex Rel. Jordan†	265 N.E.2d 419	76
1969	Northern Indiana Public Service Co. v. Otis†	250 N.E.2d 378	74
1972	First National Bank of Elkhart County v. Smoker†	286 N.E.2d 203	31
1972	Gary Teachers Union Local No. 4 v. School City of Gary†	284 N.E.2d 108	25
1972	Galbreath v. City of Logansport†	279 N.E.2d 578	25
1970	Price v. Merryman†	259 N.E.2d 883	24
1969	Continental Assurance Co. v. Sickels· Concurrence†	252 N.E.2d 439	23
1971	Willsey v. Hartman†	269 N.E.2d 172	22
1973	Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners v. Pappas†	158 Ind. App. 327	20
1973	Brown v. Brown†	301 N.E.2d 400	19
1971	Goldstone v. Kozma†	274 N.E.2d 304	18
1971	Boss-Harrison Hotel Co., Inc. v. Barnard†	266 N.E.2d 810	18
1969	Rankin v. Industrial Contractors, Inc.†	246 N.E.2d 410	17
1970	Wright v. Kinnard†	262 N.E.2d 196	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 64 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 Indiana Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Allen Sharp on?: Allen Sharp was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

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4 years on the Indiana Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).