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 1865 / Served to 1871

Jehu T. Elliott

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Jehu T. Elliott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1865. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1813–1876
Tenure: 1865–1871 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1865	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Elliott authored 346 published opinions for the court (1865–1870), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Bright v. McCullough (99 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. 349 of these were attributed to Elliott 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
1866	Bright v. McCullough†	27 Ind. 223	99
1868	Gentile v. State†	29 Ind. 409	79
1867	Brinkmeyer v. City of Evansville†	29 Ind. 187	68
1865	Somers v. Pumphrey†	24 Ind. 231	52
1869	Columbus & Indianapolis Central Railway Co. v. Arnold†	31 Ind. 174	48
1866	Jeffersonville Railroad v. Hendricks' Administrator†	26 Ind. 228	47
1869	Debolt v. Carter†	31 Ind. 355	46
1866	Davis v. Clark†	26 Ind. 424	44
1866	Jeffersonville Railroad v. Swayne's Administrator†	26 Ind. 477	43
1865	City of Logansport v. Wright†	25 Ind. 512	40
1865	Little v. Thompson†	24 Ind. 146	36
1865	Berkshire v. Shultz†	25 Ind. 523	35
1869	Kunkle v. State†	32 Ind. 220	33
1869	Simpson v. Pearson†	31 Ind. 1	31
1867	Reed v. Watson†	27 Ind. 443	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 349 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 Jehu T. Elliott on?: Jehu T. Elliott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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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).