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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota / Joined 1987 / Served to 1997

Fred Norton

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Fred Norton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–1997 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Norton authored 285 published opinions for the court (1987–1998), plus 14 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Tereault v. Palmer (94 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. 88 of these were attributed to Norton 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
1987	Tereault v. Palmer	413 N.W.2d 283	94
1992	Southtown Plumbing, Inc. v. Har-Ned Lumber Co.	493 N.W.2d 137	62
1988	Lee v. Metropolitan Airport Commission†	428 N.W.2d 815	49
1991	Marriage of Berenberg v. Berenberg†	474 N.W.2d 843	35
1993	McGrath v. TCF Bank Savings, FSB	502 N.W.2d 801	34
1992	NBZ Enterprises, Inc. v. City of Shakopee	489 N.W.2d 531	32
1995	Winkler v. Magnuson	539 N.W.2d 821	31
1997	State v. Thoma· Dissent†	569 N.W.2d 205	27
1996	Bruchas v. Preventive Care, Inc.	553 N.W.2d 440	27
1992	Pedro v. Pedro	489 N.W.2d 798	27
1992	MT Properties, Inc. v. CMC Real Estate Corp.	481 N.W.2d 383	27
1991	Andren v. White-Rodgers Co.· Dissent†	465 N.W.2d 102	26
1990	Fingerhut Corp. v. Suburban National Bank	460 N.W.2d 63	24
1995	Independent School District No. 197 v. Accident & Casualty Insurance of Winterthur· Concurrence†	525 N.W.2d 600	23
1990	Alevizos v. METROPOLITAN AIRPORTS COM'N	452 N.W.2d 492	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 305 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 Court of Appeals of Minnesota reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Fred Norton on?: Fred Norton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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