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 1994 / Served to 2012

Carr L. Darden

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Carr L. Darden was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2012 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Darden authored 1,045 published opinions for the court (1995–2012), plus 43 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: Johnson v. Rush County Division of Family & Children (175 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. 174 of these were attributed to Darden 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	Johnson v. Rush County Division of Family & Children†	690 N.E.2d 716	175
2008	Paul v. State	888 N.E.2d 818	98
2006	Marriage of Kondamuri v. Kondamuri	852 N.E.2d 939	67
2007	Brown v. Alexander· Dissent†	876 N.E.2d 376	53
2002	Crabtree v. State· Dissent†	762 N.E.2d 241	51
2007	Mahan v. American Standard Insurance Co.	862 N.E.2d 669	49
2002	Laughner v. State	769 N.E.2d 1147	40
1997	Sundling v. State	679 N.E.2d 988	39
2003	Lawson v. First Union Mortgage Co.· Concurrence†	786 N.E.2d 279	37
2012	Paternity of C.S.: M.R. v. R.S.†	964 N.E.2d 879	36
2009	Smyth v. Hester	901 N.E.2d 25	36
2012	Bradford v. State	960 N.E.2d 871	35
2010	A.S. v. T.H.†	920 N.E.2d 803	35
1998	Grzan v. Charter Hospital of Northwest Indiana	702 N.E.2d 786	35
2008	Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles v. Ash, Inc.	895 N.E.2d 359	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,111 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 Carr L. Darden on?: Carr L. Darden was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).