How do judges of the Montana Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1940 / Served to 1946

Albert Anderson

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Albert Anderson was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1876 · age 150
Tenure: 1940–1946 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Education

George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 36 published opinions for the court (1941–1944), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Irvine's Estate (33 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. 3 of these were attributed to Anderson 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
1943	In Re Irvine's Estate· Dissent	139 P.2d 489	33
1942	In Re Takahashi's Estate	129 P.2d 217	27
1941	Sanborn v. Lewis & Clark County	120 P.2d 567	27
1944	Woodward v. Perkins	147 P.2d 1016	19
1943	Grady v. City of Livingston· Concurrence	141 P.2d 346	18
1943	Yellowstone County v. Wight	145 P.2d 516	17
1943	State Ex Rel. Howard v. Ireland	138 P.2d 569	16
1943	State Ex Rel. Pitcher v. District Court	133 P.2d 350	14
1941	Kerr v. Small	117 P.2d 271	13
1943	In Re Mickich's Estate	136 P.2d 223	12
1941	Merchants Credit Service, Inc. v. Chouteau County Bank· Concurrence	114 P.2d 1074	11
1941	State Ex Rel. Wolff v. Geurkink	109 P.2d 1094	11
1944	State Ex Rel. Montgomery Ward & Co. v. District Court· Dissent	146 P.2d 1012	10
1944	State Ex Rel. Leahy v. O'Rourke	146 P.2d 168	10
1943	State v. Mercer· Dissent	133 P.2d 358	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 46 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 Montana Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Albert Anderson on?: Albert Anderson was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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