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 1951 / Served to 1955

Floyd Stanley Draper

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Floyd Stanley Draper was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1980
Tenure: 1951–1955 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Valparaiso University

Judicial Record

In our data, Draper authored 90 published opinions for the court (1951–1954), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Harshman v. State (79 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. 34 of these were attributed to Draper 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
1953	Harshman v. State	115 N.E.2d 501	79
1952	New York Central Railroad v. Milhiser· Concurrence†	106 N.E.2d 453	76
1952	Indiana Department of State Revenue v. Colpaert Realty Corp.	109 N.E.2d 415	73
1951	Larkins v. Kohlmeyer	98 N.E.2d 896	64
1951	State Ex Rel. Standard Oil Co. v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division	101 N.E.2d 60	60
1953	Beeman v. State	115 N.E.2d 919	59
1952	Dept. of Financial Institutions v. HOLT, ETC.	108 N.E.2d 629	50
1952	Bozovichar v. State	103 N.E.2d 680	47
1952	Souerdike v. State	108 N.E.2d 136	46
1952	Dalton v. State· Dissent†	105 N.E.2d 509	45
1953	Public Service Commission v. Fort Wayne Union Railway Co.	111 N.E.2d 719	44
1951	Butler v. State	97 N.E.2d 492	42
1953	Public Service Commission v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co.	108 N.E.2d 889	41
1953	Burton v. State· Dissent†	111 N.E.2d 892	41
1952	Pollock v. Studebaker Corporation· Dissent†	105 N.E.2d 513	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 104 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 Floyd Stanley Draper on?: Floyd Stanley Draper was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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3 years 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).