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 1816 / Served to 1830

James Scott

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

James Scott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1816. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1767–1855
Tenure: 1816–1830 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1816	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Scott authored 88 published opinions for the court (1817–1830). Most cited: Henthorn v. Doe (20 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. 88 of these were attributed to Scott 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
1822	Henthorn v. Doe†	1 Blackf. 157	20
1820	Shields v. Cunningham†	1 Blackf. 86	18
1829	M'Neely v. Driskill†	2 Blackf. 259	16
1826	Harrison v. Doe, on the Demise of Rapp†	2 Blackf. 1	16
1827	Lutz v. Lutz†	2 Blackf. 72	14
1826	Lagow v. Badollet†	1 Blackf. 416	14
1821	Clearwater v. Rose†	1 Blackf. 137	14
1828	Berry v. Bates†	2 Blackf. 118	12
1821	Doe v. West†	1 Blackf. 133	11
1823	M'Intosh v. Chew†	1 Blackf. 289	10
1820	Stout v. Wood†	1 Blackf. 71	10
1830	Merriman v. Maple†	2 Blackf. 350	9
1829	Naylor v. Moody†	2 Blackf. 247	9
1825	Reed v. Carter†	1 Blackf. 410	9
1822	Lasselle v. Moore†	1 Blackf. 226	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 88 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 Scott on?: James Scott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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13 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).