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 1974 / Served to 1996

William I. Garrard

Judge, Indiana Court of Appeals

William I. Garrard was a Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1974–1996 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Indiana Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Wabash College

Judicial Record

In our data, Garrard authored 1,019 published opinions for the court (1974–2012), plus 65 dissents and 162 concurrences. Most cited: Roddy v. State (112 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. 440 of these were attributed to Garrard 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	Roddy v. State· Concurrence†	394 N.E.2d 1098	112
1979	Martin v. Platt	386 N.E.2d 1026	102
1975	Home Insurance Company v. Neilsen	332 N.E.2d 240	100
1974	Aafco Heating & Air Conditioning Co. v. Northwest Publications, Inc.· Dissent†	321 N.E.2d 580	99
1974	Podgorny v. Great Central Insurance Co.	311 N.E.2d 640	97
1976	Letson v. Lowmaster	341 N.E.2d 785	77
1977	In Re the Marrage of Miles	362 N.E.2d 171	74
1976	Petroski v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co.· Concurrence†	354 N.E.2d 736	71
1998	Hubbard v. Hubbard	690 N.E.2d 1219	70
1997	Crowl v. Berryhill	678 N.E.2d 828	66
1992	Babinchak v. Town of Chesterton	598 N.E.2d 1099	66
1983	Biggs v. Marsh	446 N.E.2d 977	66
1979	Stockberger v. Meridian Mutual Insurance· Concurrence†	395 N.E.2d 1272	66
1984	Sayre v. State	471 N.E.2d 708	64
1989	Borne Ex Rel. Borne v. Northwest Allen County School Corp.	532 N.E.2d 1196	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,246 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 I. Garrard on?: William I. Garrard was 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).