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 1993 / Active

Ezra H. Friedlander

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Ezra H. Friedlander is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, serving since 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1993 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Friedlander authored 1,180 published opinions for the court (1993–2018), plus 73 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. State (120 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. 288 of these were attributed to Friedlander 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
2002	Brown v. State	760 N.E.2d 243	120
1996	Goldsberry v. Grubbs· Dissent†	672 N.E.2d 475	99
2003	Romine v. Gagle	782 N.E.2d 369	76
1997	Norlund v. Faust· Concurrence†	675 N.E.2d 1142	74
2006	Marriage of Zoller v. Zoller	858 N.E.2d 124	69
2004	Whitaker v. Brunner	814 N.E.2d 288	67
2003	Ramsey v. Review Board of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development	789 N.E.2d 486	66
2002	Smith v. State· Dissent†	779 N.E.2d 111	55
2007	Huntington v. Riggs· Concurrence†	862 N.E.2d 1263	54
2013	Judy Chang v. Purdue University, The Trustees of Purdue University Dr. France A. Cordova, President of Purdue University (in her official capacity)†	985 N.E.2d 35	51
2004	Augspurger v. Hudson	802 N.E.2d 503	49
2012	Healey v. State	969 N.E.2d 607	48
2004	Crum v. City of Terre Haute ex rel. Department of Redevelopment†	812 N.E.2d 164	48
2000	Involuntary Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of J.T. v. Marion County Office of Family & Children†	740 N.E.2d 1261	48
2008	Involuntary Termination of Parent-Child Relationship of A.J. v. Marion County Office of Family & Children	881 N.E.2d 706	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,292 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 is Ezra H. Friedlander on?: Ezra H. Friedlander is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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33 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).