<Tr> <Td> Geoffrey G. Slaughter </Td> <Td> June 13, 2016 </Td> <Td> December 31, 2017 </Td> <Td> Associate Justice </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Christopher M. Goff </Td> <Td> June 12, 2017 </Td> <Td> January 1, 2021 </Td> <Td> Associate Justice </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> The Indiana Supreme Court was established in 1816 when Indiana was granted statehood . The new Court replaced the General Court of the Indiana Territory, which consisted of a three - member panel . Housed in a three - room building it shared with the Indiana legislature, the Court held its first session in Corydon on May 5, 1817 . Under the state constitution of 1816, the governor appointed justices with the state senate's "advice and consent" for a term of seven years . </P> <P> In December 1816 Jonathan Jennings, Indiana's first governor, nominated John Johnson of Vincennes Knox County; James Scott of Charlestown Clark County; and Jesse Holman of Aurora Dearborn County, to serve as the first panel of judges on the Indiana Supreme Court . Johnson became the Court's first chief justice . When Johnson died in 1817, Jennings named Isaac Blackford to replace him . Blackford became the second chief justice of the Court and was the longest serving justice in the Court's history, serving 36 years, 3 months, and 24 days . Blackford recorded all of the Court's early decisions in a multivolume work titled Blackford's Reports that served for many years as a foundational text on the interpretation of state laws . </P>

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