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 1981 / Served to 1993

William G. Conover

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

William G. Conover was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1925 · age 101
Tenure: 1981–1993 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University

Judicial Record

In our data, Conover authored 491 published opinions for the court (1981–2006), plus 53 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Perry v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (92 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. 184 of these were attributed to Conover 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
1982	Perry v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co.	433 N.E.2d 44	92
1986	Thiele v. Faygo Beverage, Inc.· Dissent†	489 N.E.2d 562	87
1985	In re L.J.M.· Dissent†	473 N.E.2d 637	65
1982	Matter of Adoption of Thomas	431 N.E.2d 506	58
1989	Snyder v. State· Dissent†	538 N.E.2d 961	56
1988	FMC Corp. v. Brown· Dissent†	526 N.E.2d 719	55
1989	Stone v. State	536 N.E.2d 534	54
1992	Indiana Insurance v. Plummer Power Mower & Tool Rental, Inc.	590 N.E.2d 1085	53
1988	Stewart v. Stewart· Dissent†	521 N.E.2d 956	53
1989	Nehi Beverage Co., Inc. v. Petri	537 N.E.2d 78	52
1991	Cornett v. Johnson· Concurrence†	571 N.E.2d 572	51
1984	Mid-States Aircraft Engines, Inc. v. Mize Co.	467 N.E.2d 1242	50
1984	Lucas v. Frazee	471 N.E.2d 1163	48
1987	Howard v. H.J. Ricks Construction Co.	509 N.E.2d 201	47
1984	Pickett v. Pickett	470 N.E.2d 751	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 563 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 William G. Conover on?: William G. Conover was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).