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 1978 / Served to 1994

Sue Shields

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Sue Shields was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1978–1994 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Ball State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Shields authored 475 published opinions for the court (1978–1994), plus 22 dissents and 51 concurrences. Most cited: Anderson v. Anderson (103 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. 204 of these were attributed to Shields 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
1979	Anderson v. Anderson	399 N.E.2d 391	103
1980	Whitman v. Whitman	405 N.E.2d 608	70
1990	Rogers v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.	557 N.E.2d 1045	66
1988	Jarrell v. Monsanto Co.· Concurrence†	528 N.E.2d 1158	57
1987	Delk v. Bd. of Com'rs of Delaware County	503 N.E.2d 436	56
1993	Midwest Commerce Banking Co. v. Livings· Concurrence†	608 N.E.2d 1010	53
1985	Davis v. State	476 N.E.2d 127	53
1993	Tyson v. State	619 N.E.2d 276	52
1982	Hahn v. Ford Motor Co., Inc.	434 N.E.2d 943	52
1991	Cornett v. Johnson· Concurrence†	571 N.E.2d 572	51
1978	Lyles v. State	382 N.E.2d 991	50
1985	Carnes v. State	480 N.E.2d 581	47
1983	Coffel v. Perry	452 N.E.2d 1066	46
1979	Fox v. State	384 N.E.2d 1159	46
1980	Mills v. American Playground Device Co.	405 N.E.2d 621	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 549 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 was Sue Shields on?: Sue Shields was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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16 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).