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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1953 / Served to 1957

Forrest H. Anderson

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Forrest H. Anderson was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1989
Tenure: 1953–1957 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 30 published opinions for the court (1953–1956), plus 14 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Fraser v. Clark (40 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. 48 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
1954	Fraser v. Clark· Dissent†	273 P.2d 105	40
1955	Gaffney v. Industrial Accident Board of Montana· Concurrence†	287 P.2d 256	34
1955	Levo v. General-Shea-Morrison	280 P.2d 1086	32
1955	State v. Parr· Dissent†	283 P.2d 1086	28
1954	State v. Phillips· Dissent†	264 P.2d 1009	28
1954	State v. Dryman· Dissent†	269 P.2d 796	27
1955	State v. Hale· Concurrence†	291 P.2d 229	25
1956	State Ex Rel. Hagerty v. Rafn	304 P.2d 918	23
1955	State Ex Rel. Burns v. Lacklen· Dissent†	284 P.2d 998	22
1953	Chicago, M., St. P. & P. R. Co. v. Board of Railroad Comm'rs.	255 P.2d 346	18
1954	State v. McBane	275 P.2d 218	17
1954	Minder v. Gray· Dissent†	128 Mont. 1	14
1954	McDonald v. Peters· Concurrence†	272 P.2d 730	12
1953	Sheridan County Electric Co-Op., Inc. v. Anhalt· Concurrence†	257 P.2d 889	12
1956	Reed v. Reed	304 P.2d 590	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 62 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 Montana Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Forrest H. Anderson on?: Forrest H. Anderson was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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