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 1939 / Served to 1945

Hardses Nathan Swaim

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Hardses Nathan Swaim was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1957
Tenure: 1939–1945 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

DePauw University

Judicial Record

In our data, Swaim authored 102 published opinions for the court (1939–1944), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Lindley v. Sink (67 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
1940	Lindley v. Sink	30 N.E.2d 456	67
1941	Jones v. Cary	37 N.E.2d 944	66
1941	Brown v. State	37 N.E.2d 73	58
1942	Coleman v. City of Gary	44 N.E.2d 101	41
1941	Aaron v. City of Tipton	32 N.E.2d 88	40
1944	Kuhn v. State· Dissent	52 N.E.2d 491	38
1942	Department of Treasury v. Ice Service, Inc.	41 N.E.2d 201	37
1941	Department of Treasury v. Muessel	32 N.E.2d 596	36
1940	Deming Hotel Co. v. Sisson	24 N.E.2d 912	34
1940	Craig, Exrx. v. Citizens Trust Company	26 N.E.2d 1006	33
1939	Reed, Admr. v. Brown	19 N.E.2d 1015	33
1939	Watson v. Burnett	23 N.E.2d 420	31
1940	W. H. Dreves, Inc. v. Oslo School Township	28 N.E.2d 252	30
1940	Crawfordsville Trust Co. v. Elston Bank & Trust Co.	25 N.E.2d 626	30
1939	Grantham Realty Corp. v. Bowers, Jr., Tr.	22 N.E.2d 832	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 103 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 Hardses Nathan Swaim on?: Hardses Nathan Swaim was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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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).