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 2010 / Former Justice

Steven H. David

Justice, Supreme Court of Indiana

Steven H. David was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who joined the court in 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–

Education

Murray State University

Judicial Record

In our data, David authored 146 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 20 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Andrew Conley v. State of Indiana (392 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. 150 of these were attributed to David 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
2012	Andrew Conley v. State of Indiana†	972 N.E.2d 864	392
2013	Kevin M. Clark v. State of Indiana†	994 N.E.2d 252	276
2012	In the Matter of K.D. & K.S. S.S. v. The Indiana Dept. of Child Services and Child Advocates, Inc.†	962 N.E.2d 1249	198
2011	Z.G. v. Marion County Department of Child Services†	954 N.E.2d 910	194
2013	Curtis A. Bethea v. State of Indiana†	983 N.E.2d 1134	189
2015	Charles Moore v. State of Indiana†	27 N.E.3d 749	154
2016	In Re the Marriage of: Amy Steele-Giri v. Brian K. Steele†	51 N.E.3d 119	152
2013	Patrick Austin v. State of Indiana†	997 N.E.2d 1027	143
2015	Involuntary Termination of Parent-Child Relationship of K.E. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	39 N.E.3d 641	125
2011	Curtis v. State	948 N.E.2d 1143	117
2017	Royce Love v. State†	73 N.E.3d 693	109
2013	Demetrius Walker v. State of Indiana†	998 N.E.2d 724	101
2013	Michael D. Perkinson, Jr. v. Kay Char Perkinson†	989 N.E.2d 758	96
2016	In Re the Involuntary Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship of R.S., (Minor Child), and R.S. (Father) v. Marion County Department of Child Services and Child Advocates, Inc.†	56 N.E.3d 625	90
2014	J.A. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	4 N.E.3d 1158	87

Showing the 15 most-cited of 174 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 Steven H. David on?: Steven H. David was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.

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16 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).