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 1998 / Active

L Mark Bailey

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

L Mark Bailey is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Indianapolis

Judicial Record

In our data, Bailey authored 1,447 published opinions for the court (1998–2026), plus 44 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: Best Homes, Inc. v. Rainwater (77 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. 521 of these were attributed to Bailey 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
1999	Best Homes, Inc. v. Rainwater	714 N.E.2d 702	77
2001	Badelle v. State	754 N.E.2d 510	74
2008	Gregory v. State	885 N.E.2d 697	73
2000	Marriage of Glover v. Torrence· Dissent†	723 N.E.2d 924	65
2000	Elkins v. Marion County Office of Family & Children	736 N.E.2d 791	61
2002	Oldham v. State	779 N.E.2d 1162	59
2005	Fowler v. Perry	830 N.E.2d 97	57
2000	Bertholet v. Bertholet	725 N.E.2d 487	56
2007	Douglas v. State	878 N.E.2d 873	55
2006	Jones v. State	847 N.E.2d 190	54
1999	Peoples Bank & Trust Co. v. Price	714 N.E.2d 712	53
2006	White v. Silbernagel†	859 N.E.2d 1215	51
2011	Coates v. Heat Wagons, Inc.	942 N.E.2d 905	49
2002	Clark v. Crowe	778 N.E.2d 835	49
1998	Indiana-American Water Co. v. Town of Seelyville	698 N.E.2d 1255	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,529 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 L Mark Bailey on?: L Mark Bailey is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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28 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).