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 1993 / Served to 2012

Frank Sullivan Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Frank Sullivan Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 1993–2012 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Dartmouth College

Judicial Record

In our data, Sullivan authored 537 published opinions for the court (1993–2012), plus 88 dissents and 88 concurrences. Most cited: Richardson v. State (824 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. 234 of these were attributed to Sullivan 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
1999	Richardson v. State· Concurrence†	717 N.E.2d 32	824
2009	R.Y. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	904 N.E.2d 1257	618
1996	Quillen v. Quillen	671 N.E.2d 98	520
2001	Lambert v. State	743 N.E.2d 719	456
2009	Pruitt v. State	903 N.E.2d 899	450
1995	Wright v. State	658 N.E.2d 563	328
1999	Cox v. State	706 N.E.2d 547	320
1994	Collins v. Day· Dissent†	644 N.E.2d 72	285
2002	French v. State· Dissent†	778 N.E.2d 816	246
1996	Rice v. Strunk	670 N.E.2d 1280	239
2010	N.L. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	919 N.E.2d 102	234
2005	Wright v. State	828 N.E.2d 904	233
2004	Rhodes v. Wright	805 N.E.2d 382	222
1996	American States Insurance Co. v. Kiger· Concurrence†	662 N.E.2d 945	209
1995	Bivins v. State· Concurrence†	642 N.E.2d 928	207

Showing the 15 most-cited of 713 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 Sullivan Jr. on?: Frank Sullivan Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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19 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).