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 2017 / Active

Christopher M. Goff

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Christopher M. Goff is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Goff authored 22 published opinions for the court (2017–2026). Most cited: Erie Indemnity Company, as Attorney-in-Fact for the Subscribers at Erie Insurance Exchange v. Estate of Brian L. Harris, by Its Special Representative, Laura Harris, and Anna Marie Harris (67 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. 22 of these were attributed to Goff 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
2018	Erie Indemnity Company, as Attorney-in-Fact for the Subscribers at Erie Insurance Exchange v. Estate of Brian L. Harris, by Its Special Representative, Laura Harris, and Anna Marie Harris†	99 N.E.3d 625	67
2018	Shelly M. Phipps v. State of Indiana†	90 N.E.3d 1190	43
2019	Angelo Bobadilla v. State of Indiana†	117 N.E.3d 1272	42
2019	Zachariah J. Marshall v. State of Indiana†	117 N.E.3d 1254	37
2019	John E. Moriarity and Mae E. Moriarity v. Indiana Department of Natural Resources†	113 N.E.3d 614	35
2018	In the Matter of the Supervised Estate of Gary D. Kent John David Kent and Kevin Kent, as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Gary D. Kent Nicholas Kent and David Kent v. Cynthia Kerr†	99 N.E.3d 634	26
2018	David Wright v. State of Indiana†	108 N.E.3d 307	25
2018	Kristopher L. Weida v. State of Indiana†	94 N.E.3d 682	11
2018	Roy Lee Ward v. Robert E. Carter, Jr., Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Correction, and Ron Neal, Superintendent of the Indiana State Prison, In Their Official Capacities†	90 N.E.3d 660	9
2019	Anthony Bedolla v. State of Indiana†	123 N.E.3d 661	5
2019	NIPSCO Industrial Group v. Northern Indiana Public Service Company, and Office of the Utility Consumer Counselor†	125 N.E.3d 617	3
2019	State of Indiana v. Beth A. Neff†	117 N.E.3d 1263	3
2018	Marquell M. Jackson v. State of Indiana†	105 N.E.3d 1081	3
2017	Merchandise Warehouse Co., Inc. v. Indiana Department of State Revenue†	87 N.E.3d 12	2
2026	Marty J Wilson v. State of Indiana†	–	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 is Christopher M. Goff on?: Christopher M. Goff is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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9 years on the Supreme Court of Indiana. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).