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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

North Dakota Supreme Court / Joined 1959 / Served to 1973

Alvin C. Strutz

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Alvin C. Strutz was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1973
Tenure: 1959–1973 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Strutz authored 282 published opinions for the court (1959–1973), plus 10 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Gamble Skogmo, Inc. (65 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. 46 of these were attributed to Strutz 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
1966	State v. Gamble Skogmo, Inc.· Concurrence†	144 N.W.2d 749	65
1960	Bryant v. Bryant	102 N.W.2d 800	64
1967	Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Johanneson	153 N.W.2d 414	61
1965	State v. Manning	134 N.W.2d 91	59
1961	King v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.	107 N.W.2d 509	51
1965	Lang v. General Motors Corporation	136 N.W.2d 805	46
1973	Gourneau v. Smith	207 N.W.2d 256	43
1968	Schue v. Jacoby	162 N.W.2d 377	41
1972	North American Pump Corp. v. Clay Equipment Corp.	199 N.W.2d 888	40
1962	Menz v. Coyle	117 N.W.2d 290	40
1972	State v. Binns	194 N.W.2d 756	37
1968	Wolff v. Light· Dissent†	156 N.W.2d 175	37
1965	United Development Corp. v. State Highway Department	133 N.W.2d 439	37
1968	Thornburg v. Perleberg	158 N.W.2d 188	35
1966	Walker v. Weilenman	143 N.W.2d 689	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 304 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 Alvin C. Strutz on?: Alvin C. Strutz was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).