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

Indiana Court of Appeals / Joined 2000 / Active

Paul D. Mathias

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Paul D. Mathias is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mathias authored 1,397 published opinions for the court (2000–2026), plus 41 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: In the Matter of the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of: A.D.S. & A.S. and L.S. v. The Indiana Department of Child Services (362 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. 527 of these were attributed to Mathias 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
2013	In the Matter of the Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of: A.D.S. & A.S. and L.S. v. The Indiana Department of Child Services†	987 N.E.2d 1150	362
2016	David A. Mathews v. State of Indiana†	64 N.E.3d 1250	354
2010	A.S. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	924 N.E.2d 212	236
2002	A.F. v. Marion County Office of Family & Children†	762 N.E.2d 1244	195
2008	Baumgartner v. State	891 N.E.2d 1131	143
2004	Thompson v. Thompson	811 N.E.2d 888	139
2012	Chappell v. State	966 N.E.2d 124	101
2011	Fernbach v. State	954 N.E.2d 1080	97
2001	In Re KS	750 N.E.2d 832	88
2011	Trainor v. State	950 N.E.2d 352	83
2013	Jesus S. Gil v. State of Indiana†	988 N.E.2d 1231	81
2003	Willoughby v. State	792 N.E.2d 560	71
2015	Brian L. Harrison v. State of Indiana†	32 N.E.3d 240	69
2014	Juan Manzano v. State of Indiana†	12 N.E.3d 321	69
2009	Atteberry v. State	911 N.E.2d 601	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,479 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 Paul D. Mathias on?: Paul D. Mathias is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

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26 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).