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 2005 / Former Justice

Daniel John Crothers

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Daniel John Crothers was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1957 · age 69
Tenure: 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Crothers authored 862 published opinions for the court (2005–2026), plus 32 dissents and 89 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Holly (101 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. 442 of these were attributed to Crothers 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
2013	State v. Holly· Concurrence†	2013 ND 94	101
2006	State v. Bertram	2006 ND 10	74
2008	Coughlin Construction Co. v. Nu-Tec Industries, Inc.· Concurrence†	2008 ND 163	55
2008	Erickson v. Brown· Concurrence†	2008 ND 57	55
2006	Ungar v. North Dakota State University	2006 ND 185	55
2006	Sack v. Sack	2006 ND 57	52
2005	State v. Hernandez· Concurrence†	2005 ND 214	52
2011	Prchal v. Prchal†	795 N.W.2d 693	49
2009	Barbie v. Minko Construction, Inc.	2009 ND 99	49
2014	McCoy v. North Dakota Department of Transportation†	2014 ND 119	47
2006	ACUITY v. Burd & Smith Construction, Inc.	2006 ND 187	47
2012	Hamilton v. Woll· Concurrence†	823 N.W.2d 754	45
2010	Investors Title Insurance Co. v. Herzig· Concurrence†	785 N.W.2d 863	45
2007	In Re Estate of Elken	2007 ND 107	45
2015	First National Bank & Trust Co. of Williston v. Solberg†	2015 ND 122	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 983 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 Daniel John Crothers on?: Daniel John Crothers was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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21 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).