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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 2004 / Active

Barry A. Anderson

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Barry A. Anderson is a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: Since 2004 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 77 published opinions for the court (2014–2019), plus 40 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: State of Minnesota v. Jose Arriage Soto, Jr. (135 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. 136 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
2014	State of Minnesota v. Jose Arriage Soto, Jr.· Dissent†	855 N.W.2d 303	135
2019	Daniel v. City of Minneapolis· Dissent†	923 N.W.2d 637	117
2017	State v. Thonesavanh· Concurrence†	904 N.W.2d 432	107
2017	State v. Harris†	895 N.W.2d 592	89
2015	State of Minnesota v. Brandon Wayne Riggs· Dissent†	865 N.W.2d 679	77
2014	Rew ex rel. T.C.B. v. Bergstrom· Concurrence†	845 N.W.2d 764	52
2014	Citizens State Bank Norwood Young America v. Gordon Brown· Concurrence†	849 N.W.2d 55	51
2016	Mary Cocchiarella v. Donald Driggs· Dissent†	884 N.W.2d 621	44
2015	State of Minnesota v. Christopher Thomas Wenthe†	865 N.W.2d 293	43
2014	Gulbertson v. State†	843 N.W.2d 240	43
2015	State of Minnesota, Respondent/Cross-Appellant v. Bonnie Ann Lindquist, Appellant/Cross-Respondent.†	869 N.W.2d 863	42
2015	Jason Donald Matakis v. State of Minnesota· Dissent†	862 N.W.2d 33	41
2017	Montemayor v. Sebright Products, Inc.· Dissent†	898 N.W.2d 623	39
2016	State of Minnesota v. Joshua Lee Myhre†	875 N.W.2d 799	36
2016	Ali M. Shire v. Rosemount, Inc., Self-Insured/Berkley Risk Administrators Company, LLC, Relators, and Twin Cities Orthopedics, P.A., Crosstown Surgery Center, and Minnesota Department of Human Services/BRS, Intervenors.· Dissent†	875 N.W.2d 289	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 136 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 Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Barry A. Anderson on?: Barry A. Anderson is a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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