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 1913 / Served to 1916

Joseph Hooker Shea

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Joseph Hooker Shea was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals (12 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1913. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1913–1916 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1913	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shea authored 100 published opinions for the court (1913–1916). Most cited: Mills v. Cowgill (26 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. 99 of these were attributed to Shea 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
1914	Mills v. Cowgill†	56 Ind. App. 707	26
1915	McCarty v. Williams†	58 Ind. App. 440	20
1913	Fall Creek School Township v. Shuman†	55 Ind. App. 232	18
1915	Pennsylvania Co. v. Reesor†	60 Ind. App. 636	13
1913	Fricke v. Angemeier†	53 Ind. App. 140	13
1916	Nicholson v. Smith†	60 Ind. App. 385	11
1915	Gary & Interurban Railway Co. v. Hacker†	58 Ind. App. 618	11
1914	Lyons v. Souder†	56 Ind. App. 443	11
1914	Hatfield v. Rooker†	56 Ind. App. 1	11
1913	Kimberlin v. Templeton†	55 Ind. App. 155	11
1913	Evansville Gas & Electric Light Co. v. Robertson†	55 Ind. App. 353	11
1914	City of Bloomington v. Citizens National Bank†	56 Ind. App. 446	10
1914	Kokomo Brass Works v. Doran†	59 Ind. App. 583	10
1913	Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Frankel†	58 Ind. App. 115	10
1914	Burford v. Dautrich†	55 Ind. App. 384	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 100 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 Joseph Hooker Shea on?: Joseph Hooker Shea was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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3 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).