# List of justices of the Indiana Supreme Court

The following are lists of members of the Indiana Supreme Court. Founded in 1816 with the ratification of the Constitution of Indiana, the court's size has varied between three and five members serving at the same time.

## Supreme Court justices in 2022

| Name | Term start | Term expires |
| Loretta Rush | November 7, 2012 | December 31, 2024 |
| Mark Massa | April 2, 2012 | December 31, 2024 |
| Geoffrey G. Slaughter | May 9, 2016 | |
| Christopher M. Goff | July 24, 2017 | |
| Derek R. Molter | September 1, 2022 | |

## Appointment of justices

From 1816 until 1851 justices served seven-year terms and were appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Indiana Senate. From 1851 until 1971 justices were elected by popular vote every six years. From 1971 to the present a pool of candidates is selected by the Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission and one is appointed by the governor. Justices are subject to a retention election after two years of service and, if retained, they may continue for a full term of ten years.

## Previous Supreme Court justices

| # | Name | Term start | Term end | Days in office | Undergraduate and masters | LL.B./J.D. | LL.M./S.J.D. |
| 1 | John Johnson | December 28, 1816 | September 10, 1817 | 256 | | | |
| 2 | James Scott | December 28, 1816 | December 28, 1830 | 5113 | | Indiana University (honorary LL.D.) | |
| 3 | Jesse Lynch Holman | December 28, 1816 | December 28, 1830 | 5113 | | | |
| 4 | Isaac Blackford | September 10, 1817 | January 3, 1853 | 12899 | Princeton University | | |
| 5 | Stephen Stevens | January 28, 1831 | May 30, 1836 | 1949 | | | |
| 6 | John T. McKinney | January 28, 1831 | March 4, 1837 | 2313 | | | |
| 7 | Charles Dewey | May 30, 1836 | January 29, 1847 | 3896 | Williams College | Indiana University (honorary LL.D.) | |
| 8 | Jeremiah Sullivan | May 29, 1837 | January 21, 1846 | 3159 | College of William & Mary | | |
| 9 | Samuel E. Perkins | January 21, 1846 | January 3, 1865 | 8002 | | | |
| 9-cont'd | Samuel E. Perkins | January 1, 1877 | December 17, 1879 | 8002 | | | |
| 10 | Thomas Smith | January 29, 1847 | January 3, 1853 | 2166 | | | |
| 11 | Andrew Davison | January 3, 1853 | January 3, 1865 | 4383 | Jefferson College | | |
| 12 | Addison Roache | January 3, 1853 | May 8, 1854 | 490 | Indiana University | | |
| 13 | William Z. Stuart | January 3, 1853 | January 3, 1858 | 1826 | Amherst College | | |
| 14 | Alvin Hovey | May 8, 1854 | January 1, 1855 | 581 | | | |
| 15 | Samuel Gookins | January 1, 1855 | December 10, 1857 | 731 | | | |
| 16 | James Hanna | December 10, 1857 | January 3, 1865 | 2581 | | | |
| 17 | James Worden | January 16, 1858 | January 3, 1865 | 6895 | | | |
| 17-cont'd | James Worden | January 3, 1871 | December 2, 1882 | 6895 | | | |
| 18 | James S. Frazer | January 3, 1865 | January 3, 1871 | 2191 | | | |
| 19 | Jehu Elliott | January 3, 1865 | January 3, 1871 | 2191 | | | |
| 20 | Charles Ray | January 3, 1865 | January 3, 1871 | 2191 | | | |
| 21 | Robert Gregory | January 3, 1865 | January 3, 1871 | 2191 | | | |
| 22 | John Pettit | January 3, 1871 | January 1, 1877 | 2192 | | | |
| 23 | Alexander Downey | January 3, 1871 | January 1, 1877 | 2190 | County Seminary (Wilmington, OH) | | |
| 24 | Samuel Buskirk | January 3, 1871 | January 1, 1877 | 2190 | Indiana University | | |
| 25 | Andrew L. Osborn | December 16, 1872 | January 4, 1875 | 749 | | | |
| 26 | Horace P. Biddle | January 4, 1875 | January 3, 1881 | 2191 | | | |
| 27 | William Niblack | January 1, 1877 | January 7, 1889 | 4389 | Indiana University | | |
| 28 | George Howk | January 1, 1877 | January 7, 1889 | 4389 | Indiana Asbury University | | |
| 29 | John T. Scott | December 29, 1879 | January 5, 1881 | 373 | Franklin College | | |
| 30 | Byron Elliott | January 3, 1881 | January 2, 1893 | 4382 | Marion County Seminary | | |
| 31 | William Allen Woods | January 3, 1881 | May 8, 1883 | 855 | Wabash College | | |
| 32 | William H. Coombs | December 2, 1882 | January 1, 1883 | 30 | | | |
| 33 | Allen Zollars | January 1, 1883 | January 7, 1889 | 2198 | Denison University (B.A./M.A.) | Denison University (LL.D.)/University of Michigan Law School | |
| 34 | Edwin Hammond | May 14, 1883 | January 6, 1885 | 603 | Indiana Asbury University (LL.B.) | | |
| 35 | Joseph Mitchell | January 6, 1885 | December 12, 1890 | 2166 | | | |
| 36 | Silas Coffey | January 7, 1889 | January 7, 1895 | 2191 | Indiana University | | |
| 37 | Walter Olds | January 7, 1889 | June 15, 1893 | 1620 | †Capital University | †Ohio State University | |
| 38 | John Berkshire | January 17, 1889 | February 19, 1891 | 763 | | Indiana Asbury University | |
| 39 | Robert McBride | December 17, 1890 | January 2, 1893 | 747 | | | |
| 40 | John Miller | February 25, 1891 | January 2, 1893 | 677 | Hanover College | | |
| 41 | Leonard Hackney | January 2, 1893 | January 2, 1899 | 2191 | | | |
| 42 | James McCabe | January 2, 1893 | January 2, 1899 | 2191 | | | |
| 43 | Timothy Howard | January 2, 1893 | January 2, 1899 | 2191 | University of Michigan/University of Notre Dame (A.B./A.M.) | Notre Dame Law School | |
| 44 | Joseph S. Dailey | June 25, 1893 | January 7, 1895 | 531 | | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 45 | James Jordan | January 7, 1895 | April 10, 1912 | 6303 | Wabash College/Indiana University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 46 | Leander Monks | January 7, 1895 | January 7, 1913 | 6575 | Indiana University | | |
| 47 | Alexander Dowling | January 2, 1899 | January 2, 1905 | 2192 | | | |
| 48 | John V. Hadley | January 2, 1899 | January 2, 1911 | 4383 | Northwestern Christian University of Indianapolis | Indianapolis Law School | |
| 49 | Francis E. Baker | January 2, 1899 | January 25, 1902 | 1119 | Indiana University/University of Michigan | University of Michigan Law School | |
| 50 | John H. Gillett | January 25, 1902 | January 4, 1909 | 2536 | | | |
| 51 | Oscar H. Montgomery | January 2, 1905 | January 2, 1911 | 2191 | Hanover College (B.A./M.A.) | | |
| 52 | Quincy Alden Myers | January 4, 1909 | January 4, 1915 | 2191 | Northwestern Christian University of Indianapolis/Dartmouth College | Union Law School | |
| 53 | John W. Spencer | April 15, 1912 | January 7, 1919 | 2093 | Central Normal College | | |
| 54 | Douglas J. Morris | January 2, 1911 | January 1, 1917 | 2191 | Indiana Asbury University | | |
| 55 | Charles E. Cox | January 2, 1911 | January 1, 1917 | 2191 | | | |
| 56 | Richard K. Erwin | January 6, 1913 | October 15, 1918 | 2108 | Methodist College | | |
| 57 | Moses Lairy | January 4, 1915 | January 3, 1921 | 2191 | Northern Indiana Normal School | University of Michigan Law School | |
| 58 | David Myers | January 1, 1917 | December 31, 1934 | 6573 | Smithson College/Central Normal College/Union University | Union Law School | |
| 59 | Lawson Harvey | January 1, 1917 | June 25, 1920 | 1271 | Butler University/Haverford College | Central Law School | |
| 60 | Howard L. Townsend | October 5, 1917 | November 1, 1923 | 2218 | Bethany College (West Virginia) | Chicago-Kent College of Law | |
| 61 | Benjamin Willoughby | January 6, 1919 | January 7, 1931 | 4384 | | Cincinnati College | |
| 62 | Louis Ewbank | January 1, 1920 | January 3, 1927 | 2559 | | | |
| 63 | Julius Travis | January 3, 1921 | January 3, 1933 | 4383 | University of Michigan | University of Michigan Law School | |
| 64 | Fred Gause | November 1, 1923 | January 5, 1925 | 431 | | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 65 | Willard Gemmill | January 5, 1925 | January 4, 1931 | 2190 | DePauw University | Indiana Law School | |
| 66 | Clarence R. Martin | January 3, 1927 | January 3, 1933 | 2192 | University of Michigan | Indiana Law School | |
| 67 | Curtis Roll | January 5, 1931 | January 4, 1943 | 4382 | Indiana University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 68 | Walter Treanor | January 8, 1931 | December 27, 1937 | 2545 | Indiana University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | Harvard Law School (S.J.D.) |
| 69 | Michael Fansler | January 4, 1933 | January 1, 1945 | 4380 | University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame Law School | |
| 70 | James P. Hughes | January 3, 1933 | January 1, 1939 | 2189 | DePauw University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 71 | George Tremain | January 1, 1935 | December 31, 1940 | 2191 | Central Normal College | Indiana Law School | |
| 72 | Curtis Shake | January 4, 1938 | January 7, 1946 | 2925 | Vincennes University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 73 | Hardress Nathan Swaim | January 1, 1939 | January 1, 1945 | 2192 | DePauw University | University of Chicago Law School | |
| 74 | Frank Richman | January 6, 1941 | January 6, 1947 | 2191 | Lake Forest College | University of Chicago Law School | |
| 75 | Mart O'Malley | January 4, 1943 | January 3, 1949 | 2191 | Saint Thomas College | Valparaiso University School of Law | |
| 76 | Howard Young Sr. | January 1, 1945 | January 1, 1951 | 2191 | University of Chicago | Indiana Law School | |
| 77 | Oliver Starr | January 1, 1945 | January 1, 1951 | 2191 | Indiana University | University of Michigan Law School | |
| 78 | Frank Gilkison | January 1, 1945 | February 25, 1955 | 3707 | | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 79 | James Emmert | January 6, 1947 | January 5, 1959 | 4381 | Northwestern University | Harvard Law School | |
| 80 | Paul G. Jasper | January 3, 1949 | March 31, 1953 | 1548 | Indiana University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 81 | Arch Bobbitt | January 2, 1951 | January 7, 1963 | 4388 | Central Normal College | Benjamin Harrison Law School | |
| 82 | Floyd Draper | January 2, 1951 | January 10, 1955 | 1469 | | Valparaiso University School of Law | |
| 83 | Dan Flanagan | April 1, 1953 | December 31, 1954 | 639 | Butler University / University of California | Benjamin Harrison Law School | |
| 84 | Harold Achor | January 3, 1955 | December 12, 1966 | 4361 | Indiana Central College | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 85 | Isadore Levine | January 13, 1955 | May 23, 1955 | 130 | University of Michigan | University of Michigan Law School | |
| 86 | George Henley | March 15, 1955 | May 23, 1955 | 69 | Indiana University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 87 | Frederick Landis Jr. | May 23, 1955 | November 8, 1965 | 3822 | Wabash College | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 88 | Norman Arterburn | May 23, 1955 | May 13, 1977 | 8026 | Indiana University | University of Chicago Law School | |
| 89 | Amos W. Jackson | January 5, 1959 | January 4, 1971 | 4382 | Hanover College | | |
| 90 | Walter Myers Jr. | January 7, 1963 | June 2, 1967 | 1607 | Yale University | Yale Law School | |
| 91 | Frederick Rakestraw | January 7, 1966 | January 2, 1967 | 360 | Manchester College / Indiana University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 92 | Donald Mote | January 3, 1967 | September 17, 1968 | 623 | DePauw University / Wabash College | George Washington University Law School | |
| 93 | David Lewis | June 21, 1967 | January 6, 1969 | 565 | DePauw University | University of Chicago Law School | |
| 94 | Donald Hunter | January 2, 1967 | September 6, 1985 | 6822 | | Lincoln Law School (Indianapolis) | |
| 95 | Roger O. DeBruler | September 30, 1968 | August 8, 1996 | 10174 | Indiana University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 96 | Richard M. Givan | January 6, 1969 | December 31, 1994 | 9125 | Indiana University | Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law | |
| 97 | Dixon Prentice | January 4, 1971 | January 6, 1986 | 5481 | Indiana University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 98 | Alfred Pivarnik | May 13, 1977 | December 14, 1990 | 4963 | Creighton University | Valparaiso University School of Law | |
| 99 | Randall Shepard | September 6, 1985 | March 23, 2012 | 8306 | Princeton University | Yale Law School | University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.) |
| 100 | Brent Dickson | January 6, 1986 | April 29, 2016 | 11063 | Purdue University | Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law | |
| 101 | Jon Krahulik | December 14, 1990 | October 31, 1993 | 1052 | Indiana University | Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law | |
| 102 | Frank Sullivan Jr. | November 1, 1993 | July 31, 2012 | 6847 | Dartmouth College | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.) |
| 103 | Myra C. Selby | January 4, 1995 | October 7, 1999 | 1737 | Kalamazoo College | University of Michigan Law School | |
| 104 | Theodore Boehm | August 8, 1996 | September 30, 2010 | 5166 | Brown University | Harvard Law School | |
| 105 | Robert Rucker | November 19, 1999 | May 12, 2017 | 5035 | Indiana University Northwest | Valparaiso University School of Law | University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.) |
| 106 | Steven H. David | October 18, 2010 | August 31, 2022 | 1049 | Murray State University | Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law | |
| 107 | Mark Massa | April 2, 2012 | Present | 517 | Indiana University | Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law | |
| 108 | Loretta Rush | November 7, 2012 | Present | 298 | Purdue University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 109 | Geoffrey G. Slaughter | June 13, 2016 | Present | | Indiana University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
| 110 | Christopher M. Goff | July 24, 2017 | Present | | Ball State University | Indiana University Maurer School of Law | |
† – There is a dispute between sources on Judge Olds' education. Gugin & St. Clair, Justices of the Indiana Supreme Court at 149 (2010) states, "Olds attended Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and then read law with his brother, James." Browning, Humphrey, & Kleinschmidt. "Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices," 30 Ind. Law Review 328, 367 (1997) states, "He studied law at The Ohio State University."

## Justices by school
### Undergraduate and master's degrees

| Current name of school | Former name(s) of school | Number of alumni |
| Amherst College | | 1 |
| Ball State University | | 1 |
| Bethany College | | 1 |
| Brown University | | 1 |
| Butler University | Northwestern Christian University of Indianapolis | 5 |
| Canterbury College (Indiana) | Central Normal College | 4 |
| Capital University | | 1† |
| College of William & Mary | | 1 |
| County Seminary (Wilmington, OH) | | 1 |
| Creighton University | | 1 |
| Dartmouth College | | 2 |
| DePauw University | Indiana Asbury University | 8 |
| Franklin College (Tennessee) | | 1 |
| Hanover College | | 3 |
| Haverford College | | 1 |
| Indiana University | | 19 |
| Indiana University Northwest | | 1 |
| Kalamazoo College | | 1 |
| Lake Forest College | | 1 |
| Manchester College | | 1 |
| Marion County Seminary | | 1 |
| Murray State | | 1 |
| Northwestern University | | 1 |
| Princeton University | | 2 |
| Purdue University | | 2 |
| Smithson College | | 1 |
| Taylor University | Methodist College | 1 |
| Union University (New York) | | 1 |
| University of California | | 1 |
| University of Chicago | | 1 |
| University of Indianapolis | Indiana Central College | 1 |
| University of Michigan | | 6 |
| University of Notre Dame | | 2 |
| University of Scranton | Saint Thomas College | 1 |
| Valparaiso University | Northern Indiana Normal School | 1 |
| Vincennes University | | 1 |
| Wabash College | | 4 |
| Washington & Jefferson College | Jefferson College | 1 |
| Williams College | | 1 |
| Yale University | | 1 |

### Masters of Laws (LL.M.) and Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.)

| Current name of school | Degree | Number of alumni |
| Harvard Law School | S.J.D. | 1 |
| University of Virginia School of Law | LL.M. | 3 |