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 1926 / Served to 1941

Alexander Burr

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Alexander Burr was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1926. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1871–1951
Tenure: 1926–1941 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1926	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Burr authored 499 published opinions for the court (1922–1947), plus 44 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Rickbeil v. Grafton Deaconess Hospital (64 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. 13 of these were attributed to Burr 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
1946	Rickbeil v. Grafton Deaconess Hospital	23 N.W.2d 247	64
1939	Langer v. State· Concurrence	284 N.W. 238	55
1945	State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Baker· Dissent	21 N.W.2d 355	53
1933	State Ex Rel. Cleveringa v. Klein	249 N.W. 118	47
1929	Billingsley v. McCormick Transfer Co.	228 N.W. 424	37
1945	State v. Coliton	17 N.W.2d 546	35
1946	Larson v. Wood	25 N.W.2d 100	31
1937	King v. Stark County· Concurrence	271 N.W. 771	30
1932	State Ex Rel. Workmen's Compensation Fund v. Yellow Cab Co.	245 N.W. 382	30
1930	Polucha v. Landes· Dissent	233 N.W. 264	30
1939	La Bree v. Dakota Tractor & Equipment Co.	288 N.W. 476	28
1936	Meyer v. National Fire Insurance	269 N.W. 845	28
1927	Kittler v. Kelsch· Dissent	216 N.W. 898	28
1941	Hamilton v. City of Bismarck· Dissent†	300 N.W. 631	25
1934	Posey Ex Rel. Posey v. Krogh	259 N.W. 757	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 564 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 Alexander Burr on?: Alexander Burr was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

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15 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).