The Indiana Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of Indiana.
 It is the successor to the Indiana Appellate Court.
Joseph F. Murphy, Jr. (born January 9, 1944) is an American lawyer and jurist from Baltimore, Maryland.
 Between December 17, 2007, and September 30, 2011, he was a judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest court in Maryland.
 Prior to being appointed to the Court of Appeals, Judge Murphy served as the Chief Judge of the Court of Special Appeals, Maryland's intermediate court of appeals.
 Judge Murphy is also an instructor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
The Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission, which also serves as the Indiana Judicial Qualifications Commission, is a seven-member panel chosen by the Indiana Bar Association and the Governor of Indiana to select judges to serve on the Indiana Circuit Court, Indiana Court of Appeals, and the Indiana Supreme Court.
 The commission is part of the Judicial Branch of the state government and reports directly to the state Supreme Court.
Homer David Peeples, known as David Peeples (born 1945), is the Republican presiding judge of the 4th Administrative Judicial Region, a twenty-two county area in and about San Antonio, Texas.
 Peeples has served on the court since 1996.
 Earlier, he practiced law and was a judge of two state district courts and the Texas Court of Appeals for the 4th District.
LeRoy Francis Millette Jr. (born July 30, 1949) is a senior justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
 Justice Millette was appointed to the Court by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Justice G. Steven Agee, who had been appointed to the federal 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
 On February 11, 2009, Justice Millette was confirmed for a full 12-year term by the Virginia General Assembly beginning retroactive to February 1, 2009.
 He entered senior service in 2015.
 Millette previously served for less than one year on the Court of Appeals of Virginia, also having been appointed by Gov. Kaine and then being subsequently confirmed by the General Assembly.
 Prior to that, he served as a judge of the Circuit Court of Prince William County, Virginia, in which position he presided over the capital murder trial of John Allen Muhammad, the infamous Beltway Sniper.
 Millette confirmed the jury's sentence of death of Muhammad.
 Millette also was involved in some of the proceedings of the Lorena Bobbitt trial in 1993.
 Prior to serving on the Circuit Court, Judge Millette was a General District Court Judge, making him one of only three Virginia jurists, along with Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. and Justice Barbara Milano Keenan, to have served at all four levels of courts in Virginia.
 He received his undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary and his law degree from the Marshall–Wythe School of Law at William and Mary.
 Justice Millette is married to M. Elizabeth O’Brien Millette and they have two children, Lauren Elizabeth Millette and LeRoy F. Millette III.
Melissa S. May is the presiding judge of the 4th District of the Indiana Court of Appeals.
 She was appointed to the Court of Appeals by Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon in 1998.
The Ohio District Courts of Appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the state of Ohio.
 The Ohio Constitution provides for courts of appeals that have jurisdiction to review final appealable orders.
 There are twelve appellate districts in the U.S. state of Ohio.
 Each court of appeals consists of at least one county, and the number of judges in each district varies from four to twelve.
 Each case is heard by a three-judge panel.
 There are currently 69 courts of appeals judges as provided by statute.
 A court of appeals judge is an elected position, with a term of six years.
 The Ohio Supreme Court has the discretion to review cases from the courts of appeals, but generally the appeals process in Ohio ends with the decision of the court of appeals.
Sara Walter Combs (born August 24, 1948) is a justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, representing the 7th Appellate District.
 She was the first woman and the first judge from the 7th district to serve as chief justice of the Court of Appeals, holding that position from 2004 to 2010.
 She was also the first woman to sit on the Kentucky Supreme Court after being appointed by Governor Brereton Jones to fill a vacancy in 1993.
 She lost her bid for re-election later that year.
 She is the widow of former Kentucky Governor Bert T. Combs.
Frank Lewis O'Bannon (January 30, 1930 – September 13, 2003) was an American politician who served as the 47th Governor of Indiana from 1997 until his death in 2003.
Purvi Patel (born c. 1982) is an Indian American whose conviction and sentence to 20 years in prison in Indiana for feticide and child neglect was overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals.
 The court pointed out that the lower court's ruling had been an "abrupt departure" from the intent of the feticide law as shown by prior usage, which consisted of cases in which a pregnant woman and her unborn child were the victims of violence.
 The court also said that it was not possible to claim that lawmakers had intended the feticide law to be used to prosecute women trying to abort because the state abortion laws had already since the 1800s explicitly protected pregnant women from prosecution.
 "The state's about-face in this proceeding is unsettling, as well as untenable" under prior court precedent, Judge Terry Crone wrote in the ruling.

Question: What year did the the man who appointed Melissa S. May judge of the 4th District of the Indiana Court of Appeals die?
Answer: 2003