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 1891 / Served to 1893

John D. Miller

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

John D. Miller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1891. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1840–1898
Tenure: 1891–1893 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1891	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Hanover College

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 127 published opinions for the court (1891–1892). Most cited: Heilman v. Heilman (67 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. 128 of these were attributed to Miller 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
1891	Heilman v. Heilman†	129 Ind. 59	67
1891	City of Richmond v. Dudley†	129 Ind. 112	54
1891	Lillie v. Trentman†	130 Ind. 16	53
1892	City of Vincennes v. Citizens' Gas Light Co.†	132 Ind. 114	48
1891	Ellis v. Bassett†	128 Ind. 118	41
1892	Monnett v. Turpie†	132 Ind. 482	40
1892	Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Mugg†	132 Ind. 168	37
1891	Robertson v. Smith†	129 Ind. 422	37
1892	Midland Railway Co. v. Dickason†	130 Ind. 164	33
1892	Wabash Railroad v. Dykeman†	133 Ind. 56	30
1892	State ex rel. McPherson v. Beckner†	132 Ind. 371	30
1892	Hutchinson v. First National Bank of Michigan City†	133 Ind. 271	30
1892	Champ v. Kendrick†	130 Ind. 545	30
1892	Board of Commissioners v. Huffman†	134 Ind. 1	27
1891	Bingham v. Walk†	128 Ind. 164	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 128 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 John D. Miller on?: John D. Miller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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1 year 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).