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 2022 / Active

Derek R. Molter

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Derek R. Molter is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, serving since 2022. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2022 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2022	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Molter authored 9 published opinions for the court (2025–2026).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 9 of these were attributed to Molter 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
2026	PENN Entertainment, Inc. (f/k/a Penn National Gaming, Inc.) v. Department Of State Revenue†	–
2026	Jada Sha'nel Monroe v. State of Indiana†	–
2026	Timothy Stabosz v. Shaw Friedman†	–
2026	Facundo Ramos-Osario v. State of Indiana†	–
2026	Caryl Rosen v. Community Healthcare System d/b/a Community Hospital†	–
2026	Lamenski Ewing v. State of Indiana†	–
2026	Anthony Wayne Carter v. State of Indiana†	–
2025	Monroe County Board of Zoning Appeals v. Bedford Recycling, Inc.†	–
2025	Andrew Nemeth Properties, LLC v. William A. Panzica†	–

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Derek R. Molter on?: Derek R. Molter is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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4 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).