How do judges of the North Dakota Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

North Dakota Supreme Court / Joined 1915 / Served to 1954

Adolph M. Christianson

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Adolph M. Christianson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1915. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1954
Tenure: 1915–1954 · 39 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1915	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Christianson authored 615 published opinions for the court (1915–1953), plus 101 dissents and 154 concurrences. Most cited: State ex rel. Linde v. Taylor (113 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. 445 of these were attributed to Christianson 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
1916	State ex rel. Linde v. Taylor†	33 N.D. 76	113
1916	Erickson v. Wiper†	33 N.D. 193	99
1915	First State Bank v. Kelly†	30 N.D. 84	66
1924	State v. First State Bank of Jud	202 N.W. 391	64
1943	Asbury Hospital v. Cass County	7 N.W.2d 438	62
1915	Aylmer v. Adams†	30 N.D. 514	60
1947	State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Broderick	27 N.W.2d 849	56
1939	Langer v. State	284 N.W. 238	55
1915	McGregor v. Great Northern Railway Co.†	31 N.D. 471	55
1950	State v. Pusch	46 N.W.2d 508	54
1950	Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. McDonald	42 N.W.2d 321	52
1940	Bekken v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States	293 N.W. 200	48
1915	Guild v. More†	32 N.D. 432	47
1923	State ex rel. Hughes v. Milhollan†	50 N.D. 184	46
1940	City of Dickinson v. Thress	290 N.W. 653	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 878 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 North Dakota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Adolph M. Christianson on?: Adolph M. Christianson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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39 years on the North Dakota Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).