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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1994 / Served to 2002

Edward C. Stringer

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Edward C. Stringer was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1994–2002 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Amherst College

Judicial Record

In our data, Stringer authored 138 published opinions for the court (1988–2002), plus 47 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Amaral v. Saint Cloud Hospital (184 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. 80 of these were attributed to Stringer 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
1999	Amaral v. Saint Cloud Hospital· Concurrence†	598 N.W.2d 379	184
2000	Hoang Minh Ly v. Nystrom	615 N.W.2d 302	167
2000	Martens v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.	616 N.W.2d 732	164
1995	In Re Hennepin County 1986 Recycling Bond Litigation	540 N.W.2d 494	127
1998	Lefto v. Hoggsbreath Enterprises, Inc.· Dissent†	581 N.W.2d 855	117
1996	ServiceMaster of St. Cloud v. GAB Business Services, Inc.	544 N.W.2d 302	114
1995	State v. Bolte	530 N.W.2d 191	98
2001	In Re the Excess Surplus Status of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Minnesota	624 N.W.2d 264	90
1997	State v. Cooper	561 N.W.2d 175	90
2001	American Family Insurance Co. v. Walser· Dissent†	628 N.W.2d 605	79
2002	Thommes v. Milwaukee Insurance Co.· Dissent†	641 N.W.2d 877	78
2000	State v. Bradford· Concurrence†	618 N.W.2d 782	78
1995	K.A.C. v. Benson	527 N.W.2d 553	78
1995	Phelps v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co.· Dissent†	537 N.W.2d 271	77
1999	State v. Profit· Concurrence†	591 N.W.2d 451	74

Showing the 15 most-cited of 201 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 Edward C. Stringer on?: Edward C. Stringer was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).