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 1972 / Served to 1975

George B. Hoffman Jr.

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

George B. Hoffman Jr. was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1972–1975 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoffman authored 1,311 published opinions for the court (1969–2009), plus 12 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Hendricks (102 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. 70 of these were attributed to Hoffman 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
1997	In Re the Marriage of Hendricks	681 N.E.2d 777	102
1970	Cornette v. Searjeant Metal Products, Inc.	258 N.E.2d 652	101
2007	Rogers v. State	878 N.E.2d 269	80
1979	Richards v. Goerg Boat & Motors, Inc.	384 N.E.2d 1084	77
1984	Anderson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.	471 N.E.2d 1170	71
1978	Urbanational Developers, Inc. v. Shamrock Engineering, Inc.	372 N.E.2d 742	70
1972	Corrao v. State	290 N.E.2d 484	66
1984	Keystone Square Shopping Center Co. v. Marsh Supermarkets, Inc.	459 N.E.2d 420	63
1979	Arnold v. Dirrim	398 N.E.2d 426	63
1977	LaFrenz v. Lake County Fair Board	360 N.E.2d 605	59
1975	Shaw v. SS Kresge Company	328 N.E.2d 775	59
1982	Kokomo Veterans, Inc. v. Schick	439 N.E.2d 639	57
1977	Cummings v. Hoosier Marine Properties, Inc.	363 N.E.2d 1266	56
1991	Davidson v. Cincinnati Insurance Co.	572 N.E.2d 502	55
1981	Cox v. Ubik	424 N.E.2d 127	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,327 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 was George B. Hoffman Jr. on?: George B. Hoffman Jr. was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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3 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).