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 1921 / Served to 1933

Julius C. Travis

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Julius C. Travis was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1868–1961
Tenure: 1921–1933 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Travis authored 174 published opinions for the court (1921–1933), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Coons v. State (51 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. 48 of these were attributed to Travis 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
1922	Coons v. State†	191 Ind. 580	51
1927	Wallace v. State	157 N.E. 657	48
1930	Landreth v. State	171 N.E. 192	46
1925	Meno v. State	164 N.E. 93	42
1932	Funk v. Bonham	183 N.E. 312	34
1924	Rosencranz v. City of Evansville†	194 Ind. 499	34
1930	State Ex Rel. White v. Grant Superior Court	172 N.E. 897	33
1926	Dale v. State	150 N.E. 781	33
1925	Hiner v. State	149 N.E. 168	32
1924	Warner v. State†	194 Ind. 426	30
1928	Weber v. Redding	163 N.E. 269	27
1922	Union Traction Co. v. Moneyhun†	192 Ind. 288	25
1932	McNamara v. State	181 N.E. 512	24
1921	Myers v. State†	190 Ind. 269	24
1928	State v. Shumaker	164 N.E. 408	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 179 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 Julius C. Travis on?: Julius C. Travis was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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12 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).