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 1985 / Served to 1996

Beryl J. Levine

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Beryl J. Levine was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1985–1996 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Levine authored 494 published opinions for the court (1985–1996), plus 62 dissents and 136 concurrences. Most cited: City of Fairgo v. Thompson (102 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. 231 of these were attributed to Levine 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
1994	City of Fairgo v. Thompson· Concurrence†	520 N.W.2d 578	102
1985	State v. Orr	375 N.W.2d 171	95
1986	Hanson v. Williams County· Concurrence†	389 N.W.2d 319	90
1992	Blotske v. Leidholm	487 N.W.2d 607	89
1992	Hofsommer v. Hofsommer Excavating, Inc.· Concurrence†	488 N.W.2d 380	89
1988	Olson v. Fraase	421 N.W.2d 820	77
1995	Heck v. Reed	529 N.W.2d 155	73
1994	State v. Miller	510 N.W.2d 638	73
1988	State v. Ringquist· Concurrence†	433 N.W.2d 207	71
1993	Matter of Adoption of KAS	499 N.W.2d 558	70
1988	State v. Schwalk	430 N.W.2d 317	69
1986	State v. Cummings	386 N.W.2d 468	67
1994	Wiege v. Wiege· Concurrence†	518 N.W.2d 708	65
1991	Livingood v. Meece	477 N.W.2d 183	65
1988	First Trust Co. of North Dakota v. Scheels Hardware & Sports Shop, Inc.· Concurrence†	429 N.W.2d 5	64

Showing the 15 most-cited of 692 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 Beryl J. Levine on?: Beryl J. Levine was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 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).