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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Indiana / Joined 1995 / Served to 1999

Myra Consetta Selby

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Myra Consetta Selby was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: 1995–1999 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Judicial Record

In our data, Selby authored 105 published opinions for the court (1995–2000), plus 1 dissent and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Richardson v. State (824 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. 15 of these were attributed to Selby 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	Richardson v. State· Concurrence†	717 N.E.2d 32	824
1999	Martin v. Richey	711 N.E.2d 1273	149
1997	Timberlake v. State	690 N.E.2d 243	148
1997	Wright v. State	690 N.E.2d 1098	139
1999	Sword v. NKC Hospitals, Inc.	714 N.E.2d 142	125
1997	USA Life One Insurance v. Nuckolls	682 N.E.2d 534	125
1997	Orr v. Westminster Village North, Inc.	689 N.E.2d 712	124
1998	Ajabu v. State· Concurrence†	693 N.E.2d 921	116
1996	Morgan v. State	675 N.E.2d 1067	115
1995	Kingery v. State	659 N.E.2d 490	115
1998	Whitener v. State	696 N.E.2d 40	112
1996	Smith v. State	675 N.E.2d 693	110
1998	Blanche v. State	690 N.E.2d 709	105
1999	Delta Tau Delta, Beta Alpha Chapter v. Johnson	712 N.E.2d 968	99
1997	Potter v. State	684 N.E.2d 1127	98

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 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 Myra Consetta Selby on?: Myra Consetta Selby was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

Sources

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4 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).