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 1945 / Served to 1955

Frank E. Gilkison

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Frank E. Gilkison was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1955
Tenure: 1945–1955 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gilkison authored 172 published opinions for the court (1945–1955), plus 34 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Neal, Admr. v. Home Builders, Inc. (126 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. 37 of these were attributed to Gilkison 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	Neal, Admr. v. Home Builders, Inc.· Dissent†	111 N.E.2d 280	126
1954	Whitaker, Admr. v. Borntrager	122 N.E.2d 734	86
1952	New York Central Railroad v. Milhiser	106 N.E.2d 453	76
1948	Wright v. Peabody Coal Co.· Dissent	77 N.E.2d 116	67
1950	City of Fort Wayne v. Bishop	92 N.E.2d 544	65
1952	State Ex Rel. Ayer v. Ewing	106 N.E.2d 441	54
1946	Caudill v. State	69 N.E.2d 549	54
1946	Jenkins v. King	65 N.E.2d 121	53
1952	Adams v. Purtlebaugh	102 N.E.2d 499	52
1954	Randolph v. State· Dissent†	122 N.E.2d 860	51
1948	State v. Griffin	79 N.E.2d 537	51
1950	Schmittler v. State· Dissent	93 N.E.2d 184	50
1947	McCague v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad· Dissent	71 N.E.2d 569	50
1952	Bozovichar v. State· Concurrence†	103 N.E.2d 680	47
1949	Kirtley v. State	84 N.E.2d 712	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 212 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 Frank E. Gilkison on?: Frank E. Gilkison was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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10 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).