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 2012 / Active

Loretta H. Rush

Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Loretta H. Rush is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rush authored 181 published opinions for the court (2013–2026), plus 6 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In the Matter of the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of E.M. and El.M., E.M. v. Indiana Department of Child Services (506 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. 181 of these were attributed to Rush 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
2014	In the Matter of the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of E.M. and El.M., E.M. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	4 N.E.3d 636	506
2014	Antonio Hughley v. State of Indiana, The Consolidated City of Indianapolis/Marion County, and The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department†	15 N.E.3d 1000	501
2016	Adam Horton v. State of Indiana†	51 N.E.3d 1154	417
2014	Randy L. Knapp v. State of Indiana†	9 N.E.3d 1274	270
2014	In the Matter of S.D., Alleged to be a Child in Need of Services J.B. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	2 N.E.3d 1283	229
2014	Daniel Brewington v. State of Indiana†	7 N.E.3d 946	144
2016	F. John Rogers, as Personal Representative of Paul Michalik, and R. David Boyer, Trustee of the Bankruptcy Estate of Jerry Lee Chambers v. Angela Martin and Brian Paul Brothers†	63 N.E.3d 316	101
2015	Andrew S. Satterfield v. State of Indiana†	33 N.E.3d 344	84
2016	James F. Griffith v. State of Indiana†	59 N.E.3d 947	74
2016	Michael Day v. State of Indiana†	57 N.E.3d 809	73
2016	William Clyde Gibson III v. State of Indiana†	51 N.E.3d 204	73
2015	Wenzel Williams v. State of Indiana†	43 N.E.3d 578	66
2016	Kathy L. Siner, Personal Representative of the Estate of Geraldine A. Siner v. Kindred Hospital Limited Partnership, d/b/a Kindred Hospital of Indianapolis†	51 N.E.3d 1184	65
2013	Heather N. Kesling v. Hubler Nissan, Inc.†	997 N.E.2d 327	62
2017	Summer Snow v. State of Indiana†	77 N.E.3d 173	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 191 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 is Loretta H. Rush on?: Loretta H. Rush is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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14 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).