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 2004 / Active

Terry A. Crone

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Terry A. Crone is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

DePauw University

Judicial Record

In our data, Crone authored 1,281 published opinions for the court (2004–2026), plus 35 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: Nathan K. Barker v. State of Indiana (107 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. 505 of these were attributed to Crone 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	Nathan K. Barker v. State of Indiana†	994 N.E.2d 306	107
2005	Davis v. State	835 N.E.2d 1102	107
2017	Larry C. Perry, Jr. v. State of Indiana†	78 N.E.3d 1	95
2014	C.A. v. Indiana Department of Child Services†	15 N.E.3d 85	89
2011	Benefield v. State	945 N.E.2d 791	82
2016	Amir Basic and Gerard Arthus v. Numan A. Amouri, Mohamad H. Mohajeri, Mohammad Aslam Chaudhry, Adnan Khan, Imdad Zackariya, Mohammad Sirajuddin, Sarah Shaikh, Aijaz Shaikh, Ismail Al-Ani†	58 N.E.3d 980	80
2007	Hartley v. Hartley	862 N.E.2d 274	66
2013	Freddie L. McKnight, III v. State of Indiana†	1 N.E.3d 193	63
2010	Reinhart v. State	930 N.E.2d 42	60
2005	Lyles v. State	834 N.E.2d 1035	60
2013	William Hinesley, III v. State of Indiana†	999 N.E.2d 975	59
2011	Steinberg v. State	941 N.E.2d 515	58
2012	Ian McCullough v. State of Indiana†	973 N.E.2d 62	57
2006	Hirshey v. State	852 N.E.2d 1008	57
2010	McCauley v. Harris	928 N.E.2d 309	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,355 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 Terry A. Crone on?: Terry A. Crone is a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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22 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).