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 2010 / Served to 2010

Theodore R. Boehm

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

Theodore R. Boehm was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals (12 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 2010. He previously served on the Supreme Court of Indiana. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 2010–2010

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Supreme Court of Indiana	–	–
2010	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Brown University
Harvard University
Brown University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Boehm authored 487 published opinions for the court (1996–2010), plus 67 dissents and 68 concurrences. Most cited: Cardwell v. State (1,919 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. 156 of these were attributed to Boehm 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
2008	Cardwell v. State	895 N.E.2d 1219	1,919
2001	Timberlake v. State	753 N.E.2d 591	787
2009	R.Y. v. Indiana Department of Child Services· Dissent†	904 N.E.2d 1257	618
2005	Litchfield v. State	824 N.E.2d 356	465
1996	State v. Van Cleave	674 N.E.2d 1293	447
2002	Azania v. State	778 N.E.2d 1253	363
2009	Williams v. Tharp· Dissent†	914 N.E.2d 756	330
1998	Woods v. State	701 N.E.2d 1208	285
2010	Brown v. State	929 N.E.2d 204	275
2002	French v. State	778 N.E.2d 816	246
1997	Yanoff v. Muncy	688 N.E.2d 1259	244
2010	Term. of Parent-Child Rel. of I.A. J.H. v. IDCS· Dissent†	934 N.E.2d 1127	219
2006	Trinity Homes, LLC v. Fang	848 N.E.2d 1065	217
2001	Wrinkles v. State· Concurrence†	749 N.E.2d 1179	196
1997	Hicks v. State	690 N.E.2d 215	191

Showing the 15 most-cited of 622 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 Theodore R. Boehm on?: Theodore R. Boehm was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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Joined the court in 2010. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).