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 1988 / Served to 1998

Linda L. Chezem

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Linda L. Chezem was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–1998 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Indiana State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Chezem authored 265 published opinions for the court (1989–1998), plus 51 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Dana Corp. (115 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. 157 of these were attributed to Chezem 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
1997	Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Dana Corp.	690 N.E.2d 285	115
1997	Hanson v. Spolnik· Concurrence†	685 N.E.2d 71	75
1993	Gray v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.	624 N.E.2d 49	61
1989	Snyder v. State	538 N.E.2d 961	56
1996	Wilson v. State	670 N.E.2d 27	51
1996	JKB, Sr. v. Armour Pharmaceutical Co.· Concurrence†	660 N.E.2d 602	51
1992	Harp v. Indiana Department of Highways	585 N.E.2d 652	48
1994	Great Lakes Chemical Corp. v. International Surplus Lines Insurance Co.	638 N.E.2d 847	47
1996	Yin v. Society National Bank Indiana	665 N.E.2d 58	46
1994	National Board of Examiners for Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. v. American Osteopathic Ass'n	645 N.E.2d 608	42
1989	Campbell v. Bartholomew County Department of Public Welfare	534 N.E.2d 273	42
1997	Wedel v. American Electric Power Service Corp.	681 N.E.2d 1122	41
1993	Pierce v. Bank One-Franklin, NA	618 N.E.2d 16	40
1997	Sundling v. State· Dissent†	679 N.E.2d 988	39
1991	Young v. State· Concurrence†	564 N.E.2d 968	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 348 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 Linda L. Chezem on?: Linda L. Chezem was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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10 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).