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 1895 / Served to 1912

James H. Jordan

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

James H. Jordan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1895. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1842–1912
Tenure: 1895–1912 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1895	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jordan authored 538 published opinions for the court (1895–1911), plus 14 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Gerhardt (197 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. 558 of these were attributed to Jordan 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
1896	State v. Gerhardt†	145 Ind. 439	197
1900	Blue v. Beach†	155 Ind. 121	141
1898	Miller v. State· Dissent†	149 Ind. 607	86
1905	Parkison v. Thompson†	164 Ind. 609	84
1897	Hauk v. State†	148 Ind. 238	84
1896	Denney v. State ex rel. Basler· Concurrence†	144 Ind. 503	82
1895	McDonald v. McDonald†	142 Ind. 55	82
1905	Davis v. Mercer Lumber Co.†	164 Ind. 413	77
1905	Ray v. Baker†	165 Ind. 74	68
1901	Lee v. State†	156 Ind. 541	68
1905	Laporte Carriage Co. v. Sullender†	165 Ind. 290	65
1903	Indiana Natural Gas & Oil Co. v. O'Brien†	160 Ind. 266	60
1899	Illinois Central Railroad v. Cheek†	152 Ind. 663	57
1897	Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Conoyer†	149 Ind. 524	57
1898	Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Miller†	149 Ind. 490	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 559 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 James H. Jordan on?: James H. Jordan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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17 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).