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 1991 / Served to 1998

Betty Barteau

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Betty Barteau was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–1998 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Barteau authored 496 published opinions for the court (1991–2012), plus 24 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Broome v. State (354 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. 106 of these were attributed to Barteau 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
1997	Broome v. State	687 N.E.2d 590	354
1997	Young v. Butts	685 N.E.2d 147	77
1995	Wayne Township Board of School Commissioners v. Indiana Insurance Co.	650 N.E.2d 1205	61
1996	Keith v. Mendus· Dissent†	661 N.E.2d 26	56
1998	Wells v. Stone City Bank	691 N.E.2d 1246	51
1991	Cornett v. Johnson	571 N.E.2d 572	51
1994	J.A.W. v. Roberts· Concurrence†	627 N.E.2d 802	49
2012	Wilson v. State	966 N.E.2d 1259	46
1994	Levinson v. Citizens National Bank of Evansville· Concurrence†	644 N.E.2d 1264	40
1994	Koo v. State· Concurrence†	640 N.E.2d 95	37
1992	Matter of ACB	598 N.E.2d 570	36
1997	R.N. Thompson & Associates, Inc. v. Monroe Guaranty Insurance	686 N.E.2d 160	33
1996	Skrzypczak v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.	668 N.E.2d 291	33
1992	Indiana High School Athletic Ass'n v. Schafer	598 N.E.2d 540	32
1998	Right Reason Publications v. Silva	691 N.E.2d 1347	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 536 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 Betty Barteau on?: Betty Barteau was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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7 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).