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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1967 / Served to 1985

Frank I. Haswell

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Frank I. Haswell was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1990
Tenure: 1967–1985 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Haswell authored 711 published opinions for the court (1960–1989), plus 71 dissents and 82 concurrences. Most cited: Cereck v. Albertson's Inc. (129 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. 339 of these were attributed to Haswell 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
1981	Cereck v. Albertson's Inc.	637 P.2d 509	129
1980	State v. McKenzie	608 P.2d 428	117
1982	Gates v. Life of Montana Insurance†	196 Mont. 178	116
1972	Home Insurance Company v. Pinski Brothers, Inc.	500 P.2d 945	105
1968	Dunphy v. Anaconda Company	438 P.2d 660	98
1978	Brown v. North American Manufacturing Co.· Concurrence†	576 P.2d 711	95
1967	Graham v. Rolandson	435 P.2d 263	93
1978	Foy v. Anderson· Dissent†	580 P.2d 114	88
1976	Reeves v. Ille Electric Company	551 P.2d 647	88
1979	State Ex Rel. Zander v. DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT	591 P.2d 656	86
1978	State v. Coleman	579 P.2d 732	82
1978	State v. McKenzie	581 P.2d 1205	79
1984	State v. Liddell	685 P.2d 918	75
1981	Linder v. Smith	629 P.2d 1187	75
1979	Azure Ex Rel. Marchington v. City of Billings· Concurrence†	596 P.2d 460	74

Showing the 15 most-cited of 864 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 Frank I. Haswell on?: Frank I. Haswell was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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18 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).