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

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

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1959 / Served to 1971

Amos W. Jackson

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Amos W. Jackson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1972
Tenure: 1959–1971 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Hanover College

Judicial Record

In our data, Jackson authored 243 published opinions for the court (1959–1972), plus 134 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Jones v. State (89 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. 241 of these were attributed to Jackson 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
1969	Jones v. State· Dissent†	252 N.E.2d 572	89
1965	Miller v. Alvey· Dissent†	207 N.E.2d 633	82
1963	Ritchie v. State· Dissent†	189 N.E.2d 575	73
1968	Johns v. State	240 N.E.2d 60	70
1969	Hobbs v. State· Dissent†	252 N.E.2d 498	64
1969	Brown v. State· Dissent†	247 N.E.2d 76	63
1969	Maxey v. State· Dissent†	244 N.E.2d 650	62
1968	Kinnaird v. State	242 N.E.2d 500	62
1962	Shipman v. State· Dissent†	183 N.E.2d 823	59
1970	Alcorn v. State	265 N.E.2d 413	58
1970	Guthrie v. State· Dissent†	260 N.E.2d 579	56
1970	Walker v. State· Dissent†	262 N.E.2d 641	54
1969	Liston v. State· Concurrence†	250 N.E.2d 739	54
1969	McPhearson v. State· Dissent†	253 N.E.2d 226	53
1965	Greenwalt v. State· Dissent†	209 N.E.2d 254	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 397 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 Supreme Court of Indiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Amos W. Jackson on?: Amos W. Jackson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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