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 1992 / Served to 2011

Edward W. Najam Jr.

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Edward W. Najam Jr. was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–2011 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Najam authored 1,315 published opinions for the court (1993–2026), plus 19 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: McBride v. Monroe County Office of Family & Children (530 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. 123 of these were attributed to Najam 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
2003	McBride v. Monroe County Office of Family & Children	798 N.E.2d 185	530
2008	Williams v. State	891 N.E.2d 621	236
2007	Roush v. State	875 N.E.2d 801	160
2005	Smith v. State	822 N.E.2d 193	158
2005	Collins v. State	822 N.E.2d 214	114
2000	Overstreet v. State	724 N.E.2d 661	105
2000	Rogier v. American Testing & Engineering Corp.	734 N.E.2d 606	98
1999	McQueen v. Fayette County School Corp.	711 N.E.2d 62	91
1993	Fowler v. Campbell	612 N.E.2d 596	91
1999	Bradley v. Hall	720 N.E.2d 747	88
2000	Levee v. Beeching	729 N.E.2d 215	86
2000	Merchants National Bank v. Simrell's Sports Bar & Grill, Inc.	741 N.E.2d 383	84
2008	Lindsey v. State	888 N.E.2d 319	76
1999	Davidson v. Perron	716 N.E.2d 29	69
1997	Natural Gas Odorizing, Inc. v. Downs	685 N.E.2d 155	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,349 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 Edward W. Najam Jr. on?: Edward W. Najam Jr. was 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).