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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1930 / Served to 1953

Charles Loring

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Charles Loring was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1873–1961
Tenure: 1930–1953 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1930	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Loring authored 784 published opinions for the court (1930–1953), plus 107 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: Reed v. Bjornson (70 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. 71 of these were attributed to Loring 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
1934	Reed v. Bjornson	253 N.W. 102	70
1950	Anderson v. Theisen	231 Minn. 369	65
1932	Brisson v. Minneapolis Baseball & Athletic Ass'n	240 N.W. 903	61
1933	Blaisdell v. Home Building & Loan Ass'n· Concurrence	249 N.W. 334	60
1951	Frankle v. Twedt· Concurrence†	234 Minn. 42	59
1950	Schrader v. Kriesel	232 Minn. 238	56
1947	Moore v. Kujath	29 N.W.2d 883	54
1940	Cowern v. Nelson	290 N.W. 795	54
1948	Anderson v. City of St. Paul· Dissent	32 N.W.2d 538	51
1953	In re Shetsky· Dissent†	239 Minn. 463	49
1936	Ferraro v. Taylor	265 N.W. 829	47
1953	American Automobile Insurance v. Molling†	239 Minn. 74	46
1936	Erickson v. Erickson	266 N.W. 161	45
1935	Johnson v. Townsend	261 N.W. 859	38
1934	Christensen v. Thornby	255 N.W. 620	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 923 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 was Charles Loring on?: Charles Loring was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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23 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).