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 2014 / Active

Nancy H. Vaidik

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Nancy H. Vaidik is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University

Judicial Record

In our data, Vaidik authored 1,258 published opinions for the court (2000–2026), plus 16 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: King v. State (470 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. 310 of these were attributed to Vaidik 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
2008	King v. State	894 N.E.2d 265	470
2006	Castro v. State Office of Family & Children	842 N.E.2d 367	235
2007	Fonner v. State	876 N.E.2d 340	161
2009	Hape v. State	903 N.E.2d 977	124
2014	Wendy Thompson v. State of Indiana†	5 N.E.3d 383	118
2007	Collins v. McKinney	871 N.E.2d 363	97
2010	Marriage of Julie C. v. Andrew C.	924 N.E.2d 1249	92
2006	Shouse v. State	849 N.E.2d 650	90
2002	Merrill v. Knauf Fiber Glass GmbH	771 N.E.2d 1258	81
2007	Cole v. State	878 N.E.2d 882	78
2005	Purvis v. State	829 N.E.2d 572	78
2012	PALILONIS v. State	970 N.E.2d 713	68
2016	Schaaf v. State†	54 N.E.3d 1041	62
2009	Lainhart v. State	916 N.E.2d 924	62
2001	DiMizio v. Romo	756 N.E.2d 1018	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,284 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 Nancy H. Vaidik on?: Nancy H. Vaidik is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).