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 1941 / Served to 1947

Frank N. Richman

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Frank N. Richman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1881–1965
Tenure: 1941–1947 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Lake Forest College

Judicial Record

In our data, Richman authored 146 published opinions for the court (1941–1946), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Wilson v. State (164 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1943	Wilson v. State	51 N.E.2d 848	164
1945	W. H. Barber Co. v. Hughes	63 N.E.2d 417	86
1941	Hawkins v. State	37 N.E.2d 79	80
1941	Tucker v. State· Dissent	35 N.E.2d 270	70
1944	Hoesel v. Cain Kahler v. Cain	53 N.E.2d 165	61
1946	Blue v. State· Dissent	67 N.E.2d 377	51
1942	Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Stitzle	41 N.E.2d 133	48
1946	State Ex Rel. Mavity v. Tyndall	66 N.E.2d 755	46
1945	Freigy v. Gargaro Company, Inc.	60 N.E.2d 288	44
1941	New York Life Insurance v. Kuhlenschmidt	33 N.E.2d 340	43
1942	Keeshin Motor Express Co. v. Glassman	38 N.E.2d 847	42
1942	State Board of Barber Examiners v. Cloud	44 N.E.2d 972	41
1946	Evans v. State	68 N.E.2d 546	39
1944	Nash Engineering Co. v. Marcy Realty Corp.	54 N.E.2d 263	38
1944	Kuhn v. State	52 N.E.2d 491	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 149 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 N. Richman on?: Frank N. Richman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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6 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).