How do judges of the Indiana Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Indiana Court of Appeals / Joined 1994 / Served to 2007

James S. Kirsch

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

James S. Kirsch was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2007 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Butler University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kirsch authored 1,089 published opinions for the court (1994–2012), plus 46 dissents and 44 concurrences. Most cited: Judy S. v. Noble County Office of Family & Children (527 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. 158 of these were attributed to Kirsch 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
1999	Judy S. v. Noble County Office of Family & Children†	717 N.E.2d 204	527
2001	In re the Termination of the Parent/Child Relationship of J.T.†	742 N.E.2d 509	255
2010	Boggs v. State	928 N.E.2d 855	110
1996	Goldsberry v. Grubbs	672 N.E.2d 475	99
2002	Iddings v. State· Concurrence†	772 N.E.2d 1006	85
1999	Davidson v. Perron· Concurrence†	716 N.E.2d 29	69
1996	Conwell v. Beatty	667 N.E.2d 768	69
2003	INS Investigations Bureau, Inc. v. Lee	784 N.E.2d 566	68
1994	Wickey v. Sparks	642 N.E.2d 262	66
1996	Singer v. State	674 N.E.2d 11	65
2012	Collins v. State	966 N.E.2d 96	55
2001	Branham v. Celadon Trucking Services, Inc.	744 N.E.2d 514	54
2007	Brown v. Alexander	876 N.E.2d 376	53
1997	Hubbard v. State	683 N.E.2d 618	53
2000	Stephens v. State	735 N.E.2d 278	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,179 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 Indiana Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was James S. Kirsch on?: James S. Kirsch was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 years on the Indiana Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).