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

Jesse L. Holman

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Jesse L. Holman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1816. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1816–1830 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Holman authored 115 published opinions for the court (1817–1830), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Fischli v. Fischli (110 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. 116 of these were attributed to Holman 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
1825	Fischli v. Fischli†	1 Blackf. 360	110
1823	President of the Bank of Vincennes v. State†	1 Blackf. 267	31
1828	Townsend v. State†	2 Blackf. 151	27
1819	Morris v. State†	1 Blackf. 37	24
1830	Brackenridge v. Holland†	2 Blackf. 377	22
1826	Clark v. Ellis†	2 Blackf. 8	21
1829	State v. Rackley†	2 Blackf. 249	20
1827	Durham v. Musselman†	2 Blackf. 96	19
1828	Hoagland v. Moore†	2 Blackf. 167	18
1821	Case of Clark†	1 Blackf. 122	18
1830	Taylor v. Moffatt†	2 Blackf. 305	16
1819	Conner v. President of New Albany†	1 Blackf. 43	16
1830	Green v. Vardiman†	2 Blackf. 324	15
1820	Conner v. President of New-Albany†	1 Blackf. 88	15
1827	M'Donald v. Beach†	2 Blackf. 55	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 116 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 Jesse L. Holman on?: Jesse L. Holman 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).