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 2007 / Active

Cale J. Bradford

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Cale J. Bradford is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Indiana University-Bloomington

Judicial Record

In our data, Bradford authored 1,016 published opinions for the court (2007–2026), plus 32 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: John Paul Garcia v. State of Indiana (76 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. 448 of these were attributed to Bradford 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
2015	John Paul Garcia v. State of Indiana· Concurrence†	47 N.E.3d 1249	76
2009	Monroe v. State	899 N.E.2d 688	64
2010	Wilson v. State†	931 N.E.2d 914	59
2014	Jeffrey M. Miller and Cynthia S. Miller v. Central Indiana Community Foundation, Inc., and Brian Payne†	11 N.E.3d 944	57
2012	FLM, LLC, and Daimler Chrysler Corp., n/k/a Chrysler LLC v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company· Concurrence†	973 N.E.2d 1167	54
2010	Holmes v. State	923 N.E.2d 479	54
2009	Washington v. State	902 N.E.2d 280	53
2009	Benefield v. State	904 N.E.2d 239	52
2013	Thomas W. Oster, II v. State of Indiana†	992 N.E.2d 871	48
2010	State v. Prater· Dissent†	922 N.E.2d 746	46
2009	Collins v. State	911 N.E.2d 700	43
2009	Jenkins v. State	909 N.E.2d 1080	43
2009	Lindsey v. DeGroot	898 N.E.2d 1251	42
2008	Myers v. State	887 N.E.2d 170	42
2011	Beeler v. State	959 N.E.2d 828	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,070 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 is Cale J. Bradford on?: Cale J. Bradford is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).