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 1967 / Served to 1969

David M. Lewis

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

David M. Lewis was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1909–1985
Tenure: 1967–1969 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lewis authored 90 published opinions for the court (1967–1969), plus 1 dissent and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Dembowski v. State (87 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. 29 of these were attributed to Lewis 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
1968	Dembowski v. State	240 N.E.2d 815	87
1969	Thomas v. State· Concurrence†	242 N.E.2d 919	71
1968	Tyler v. State	236 N.E.2d 815	65
1968	Meeks v. State	234 N.E.2d 629	60
1968	Harris v. Young Women's Christian Assn. of Terre Haute	237 N.E.2d 242	44
1968	Langley v. State	232 N.E.2d 611	43
1968	Cockrum v. State	234 N.E.2d 479	37
1968	Carter v. State	234 N.E.2d 650	36
1968	Kondrup v. State	235 N.E.2d 703	31
1968	Blue v. State	235 N.E.2d 471	30
1967	Finch v. State	231 N.E.2d 45	29
1968	State Ex Rel. Agan v. HENDRICKS SUP. CT., GIBBS, JUDGE· Dissent†	235 N.E.2d 458	27
1968	Leonard v. State	232 N.E.2d 882	27
1967	Hardesty v. State	231 N.E.2d 510	27
1967	Freeman v. State	231 N.E.2d 246	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 96 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 David M. Lewis on?: David M. Lewis was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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1 year 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).