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 1971 / Served to 1997

Jonathan Joseph Robertson

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Jonathan Joseph Robertson was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1971–1997 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Robertson authored 1,397 published opinions for the court (1971–2008), plus 39 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Hale v. Peabody Coal Company (94 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. 372 of these were attributed to Robertson 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
1976	Hale v. Peabody Coal Company	343 N.E.2d 316	94
1994	Daub v. Daub	629 N.E.2d 873	93
1974	Economy Oil Corp. v. Indiana Department of State Revenue	321 N.E.2d 215	93
1977	Hall v. Owen County State Bank	370 N.E.2d 918	77
1995	Tedlock v. State	656 N.E.2d 273	70
1994	McKay v. McKay	644 N.E.2d 164	69
1991	City of Indianapolis v. Twin Lakes Enterprises, Inc.	568 N.E.2d 1073	69
1993	Ramon v. Glenroy Const. Co., Inc.	609 N.E.2d 1123	67
1990	Collins v. Thakkar	552 N.E.2d 507	66
1979	Stuteville v. Downing	391 N.E.2d 629	65
1991	Trisler v. Indiana Insurance Co.	575 N.E.2d 1021	62
1990	Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Gregg	554 N.E.2d 1145	62
1997	Casey v. State· Dissent†	676 N.E.2d 1069	61
1974	Vaughan v. Vaughan	316 N.E.2d 455	61
1979	South Tippecanoe School Building Corp. v. Shambaugh & Son, Inc.	395 N.E.2d 320	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,452 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 was Jonathan Joseph Robertson on?: Jonathan Joseph Robertson was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

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26 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).