The bust is made from cast bronze and depicts the subject from the lower shoulders up, clad in a judicial robe.

[1] The bust was commissioned shortly after Minton's retirement by then-governor of Indiana George N. Craig, paid for out of the governor's contingency fund.

Craig and William T. Fitzgerald, president of the Indiana State Bar Association at that time, in addition to Minton himself.

[2] A 1976 catalog lists the bust's location at the statehouse as the southwest corner pier of the central rotunda, facing south.

He eventually became a professor of sculpture at the University of Southern California, and it was during his tenure there that he was commissioned to produce the Sherman Minton bust.