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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1973 / Served to 1987

George M. Scott

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

George M. Scott was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2006
Tenure: 1973–1987 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

William Mitchell College of Law

Judicial Record

In our data, Scott authored 421 published opinions for the court (1973–1987), plus 89 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Knaffla (418 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. 177 of these were attributed to Scott 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
1976	State v. Knaffla	243 N.W.2d 737	418
1983	Schmidt v. Clothier· Dissent†	338 N.W.2d 256	204
1982	State v. Saldana	324 N.W.2d 227	204
1983	State v. Trott· Dissent†	338 N.W.2d 248	145
1981	State, Department of Public Safety v. Juncewski	308 N.W.2d 316	145
1983	Ponticas v. K.M.S. Investments· Dissent†	331 N.W.2d 907	138
1981	Nord v. Herreid	305 N.W.2d 337	136
1979	Cracraft v. City of St. Louis Park· Dissent†	279 N.W.2d 801	134
1979	State v. Brouillette	286 N.W.2d 702	133
1976	Prideaux v. State Dept. of Public Safety· Concurrence†	247 N.W.2d 385	131
1986	State v. Jones	392 N.W.2d 224	123
1980	Marben v. State, Department of Public Safety	294 N.W.2d 697	123
1980	State v. Turnipseed	297 N.W.2d 308	104
1987	Phipps v. Clark Oil & Refining Corp.	408 N.W.2d 569	100
1981	Superwood Corp. v. Siempelkamp Corp.	311 N.W.2d 159	100

Showing the 15 most-cited of 534 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 George M. Scott on?: George M. Scott was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).