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 1945 / Served to 1951

Howard S. Young Sr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Howard S. Young Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1961
Tenure: 1945–1951 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Young authored 95 published opinions for the court (1945–1950), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Gamble v. Lewis (136 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 Young 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
1949	Gamble v. Lewis· Concurrence	85 N.E.2d 629	136
1949	Parker v. State	88 N.E.2d 556	76
1950	Christen v. State	89 N.E.2d 445	62
1946	State Ex Rel. Kostas v. Johnson	69 N.E.2d 592	61
1948	McAdams v. State	81 N.E.2d 671	58
1946	Jenkins v. King· Dissent	65 N.E.2d 121	53
1949	Mobley v. State	85 N.E.2d 489	52
1947	Hoy v. State· Concurrence	75 N.E.2d 915	52
1946	Blue v. State	67 N.E.2d 377	51
1949	State Ex Rel. Harp v. Vanderburgh Circuit Court· Dissent	85 N.E.2d 254	47
1947	Gilchrist v. Gilchrist	75 N.E.2d 417	41
1949	Gilley v. State	88 N.E.2d 759	40
1949	Carrier v. State· Dissent	89 N.E.2d 74	37
1949	Marshall v. State	83 N.E.2d 763	34
1945	Quinn v. Peoples Trust & Savings Co.	60 N.E.2d 281	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 Howard S. Young Sr. on?: Howard S. Young Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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5 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).