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 1989 / Active

John G. Baker

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

John G. Baker is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, serving since 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1989 · 37 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baker authored 2,450 published opinions for the court (1989–2026), plus 132 dissents and 137 concurrences. Most cited: W & W Equipment Co., Inc. v. Mink (109 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. 932 of these were attributed to Baker 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
1991	W & W Equipment Co., Inc. v. Mink	568 N.E.2d 564	109
1991	Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners v. Rittenhouse	575 N.E.2d 663	103
2009	Kimbrough v. State	911 N.E.2d 621	90
1992	Rambo v. Cohen	587 N.E.2d 140	89
2012	Gleason v. State	965 N.E.2d 702	83
2007	Four Seasons Manufacturing, Inc. v. 1001 Coliseum, LLC	870 N.E.2d 494	82
2005	Wells v. State	836 N.E.2d 475	81
1989	In Re the Marriage of Davidson	540 N.E.2d 641	79
2004	Bryant v. State	802 N.E.2d 486	76
2004	Involuntary Termination of Parent-Child Relationship of J.M. v. Marion County Office of Family & Children†	802 N.E.2d 40	75
1997	Hanson v. Spolnik	685 N.E.2d 71	75
2007	Mendoza v. State	869 N.E.2d 546	74
2008	J.S. v. State†	881 N.E.2d 26	71
1992	Indiana Department of Human Services v. Firth	1992 WL 73467	69
2001	Boczar v. Meridian Street Foundation	749 N.E.2d 87	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,719 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 is John G. Baker on?: John G. Baker is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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37 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).