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 1955 / Served to 1966

Harold E. Achor

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Harold E. Achor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1955. He previously served on the Indiana Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1967
Tenure: 1955–1966 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–
1955	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Achor authored 305 published opinions for the court (1951–1966), plus 31 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Public Service Commission v. City of Indianapolis (168 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. 130 of these were attributed to Achor 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
1956	Public Service Commission v. City of Indianapolis· Concurrence†	131 N.E.2d 308	168
1956	Miller, Etc. v. Ortman, Etc.	136 N.E.2d 17	103
1965	Brickley v. Brickley· Dissent†	210 N.E.2d 850	98
1955	Donahue v. Permacel Tape Corp.	127 N.E.2d 235	95
1955	NOBLE CTY. COUNCIL ETC. v. State Ex Rel. Fifer	125 N.E.2d 709	76
1957	Penn v. State	146 N.E.2d 240	71
1956	Shula v. Shula	132 N.E.2d 612	65
1958	Martin v. Ben Davis Conservancy District· Concurrence†	153 N.E.2d 125	63
1958	Wright v. State	147 N.E.2d 551	63
1964	McDaniel v. McDaniel	201 N.E.2d 215	59
1962	Shipman v. State	183 N.E.2d 823	59
1964	Lámar v. State	195 N.E.2d 98	56
1962	CLOUSE, ETC. v. Peden	186 N.E.2d 1	56
1957	TINDER, PROS. ATTY. v. Music Op. Inc.	142 N.E.2d 610	56
1961	WOERNER, ETC. v. City of Indianapolis	177 N.E.2d 34	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 370 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 Harold E. Achor on?: Harold E. Achor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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11 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).