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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 1981 / Served to 1995

Fred J. Weber

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Fred J. Weber was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1919 · age 107
Tenure: 1981–1995 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Weber authored 766 published opinions for the court (1981–1995), plus 132 dissents and 63 concurrences. Most cited: Steer, Inc. v. Department of Revenue (621 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. 435 of these were attributed to Weber 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
1990	Steer, Inc. v. Department of Revenue· Dissent†	803 P.2d 601	621
1995	Bruner v. Yellowstone County†	272 Mont. 261	264
1991	State v. Matt	814 P.2d 52	145
1982	Gates v. Life of Montana Insurance· Concurrence†	196 Mont. 178	116
1984	Dare v. Montana Petroleum Marketing Co.	687 P.2d 1015	84
1983	Klaudt v. Flink· Dissent†	658 P.2d 1065	84
1995	State v. Egelhoff†	272 Mont. 114	81
1994	Newville v. State, Dept. of Family Services	883 P.2d 793	80
1982	State v. Austad	641 P.2d 1373	76
1982	Montana Human Rights Division v. City of Billings	649 P.2d 1283	72
1991	State v. Harris· Dissent†	808 P.2d 453	71
1983	Gates v. Life of Montana Insurance· Dissent†	668 P.2d 213	71
1988	E.W. v. D.C.H.· Dissent†	231 Mont. 481	69
1985	In re R.B.†	217 Mont. 99	66
1983	Simmons v. State· Concurrence†	670 P.2d 1372	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 961 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 Fred J. Weber on?: Fred J. Weber was a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).