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 1994 / Active

Patricia L. Riley

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Patricia L. Riley is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Indiana University-Bloomington

Judicial Record

In our data, Riley authored 1,781 published opinions for the court (1994–2019), plus 100 dissents and 40 concurrences. Most cited: Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights of S.P.H. v. Clay County Division of Family & Children (265 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. 679 of these were attributed to Riley 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
2004	Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights of S.P.H. v. Clay County Division of Family & Children	806 N.E.2d 874	265
2000	Jones v. Gibson County Division of Family & Children	728 N.E.2d 195	157
2008	First Farmers Bank & Trust Co. v. Whorley	891 N.E.2d 604	132
2004	AutoXchange. Com, Inc. v. Dreyer and Reinbold, Inc.	816 N.E.2d 40	117
2007	Perez v. State	872 N.E.2d 208	101
2004	Iqbal v. State	805 N.E.2d 401	97
2005	Wells v. State· Dissent†	836 N.E.2d 475	81
2005	Johnson v. State	832 N.E.2d 985	77
2000	Burkett v. American Family Insurance Group	737 N.E.2d 447	74
2007	McVey v. State	863 N.E.2d 434	71
2009	Alvies v. State	905 N.E.2d 57	67
1999	State v. Friedel	714 N.E.2d 1231	65
2006	Perryman v. Motorist Mutual Insurance Co.	846 N.E.2d 683	62
2002	K.A. v. State†	775 N.E.2d 382	60
2001	Crafton v. Gibson	752 N.E.2d 78	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,922 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 Patricia L. Riley on?: Patricia L. Riley is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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32 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).