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 1934 / Served to 1941

George Lee Tremain

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

George Lee Tremain was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1874–1948
Tenure: 1934–1941 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Tremain authored 169 published opinions for the court (1935–1940), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Financial Aid Corporation v. Wallace (44 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. 2 of these were attributed to Tremain 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
1939	Financial Aid Corporation v. Wallace	23 N.E.2d 472	44
1938	Fink v. Peden	17 N.E.2d 95	40
1938	Bates Motor Transport Lines, Inc. v. Mayer, Admx.	14 N.E.2d 91	33
1937	City of Huntington v. Northern Indiana Power Co.	5 N.E.2d 889	32
1937	Local Union No. 26, National Brotherhood of Operative Potters v. City of Kokomo	5 N.E.2d 624	31
1937	Stith Petroleum Co. v. Department of Audit & Control	5 N.E.2d 517	29
1935	Everett v. State of Indiana	195 N.E. 77	29
1939	Pitts v. State	23 N.E.2d 673	28
1938	Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. v. Custin	13 N.E.2d 542	28
1938	School City of Lafayette v. Highley	12 N.E.2d 927	27
1937	School City of Peru v. State Ex Rel. Youngblood	7 N.E.2d 176	27
1940	Williams v. Williams, Admr.	29 N.E.2d 557	26
1938	Kelley v. Dickerson	13 N.E.2d 535	26
1940	City of Evansville v. Maddox	25 N.E.2d 321	25
1938	Metzger v. State	13 N.E.2d 519	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 175 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 George Lee Tremain on?: George Lee Tremain was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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7 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).