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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1981 / Served to 1990

Glenn E. Kelley

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Glenn E. Kelley was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–1992
Tenure: 1981–1990 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Northern State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kelley authored 230 published opinions for the court (1982–1990), plus 68 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Frost-Benco Electric Ass'n v. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (490 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. 139 of these were attributed to Kelley 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
1984	Frost-Benco Electric Ass'n v. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission	358 N.W.2d 639	490
1985	Hibbing Education Ass'n v. Public Employment Relations Board	369 N.W.2d 527	346
1986	Lewis v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States· Dissent†	389 N.W.2d 876	289
1986	Moylan v. Moylan· Concurrence†	384 N.W.2d 859	229
1985	Atwater Creamery Co. v. Western National Mutual Insurance Co.· Concurrence†	366 N.W.2d 271	194
1987	State v. Joon Kyu Kim· Dissent†	398 N.W.2d 544	179
1986	Hunt v. IBM Mid America Employees Federal Credit Union	384 N.W.2d 853	171
1983	White v. Metropolitan Medical Center· Dissent†	332 N.W.2d 25	168
1983	State v. Trott	338 N.W.2d 248	145
1982	Melina v. Chaplin	327 N.W.2d 19	142
1989	State v. Schwartz· Concurrence†	447 N.W.2d 422	141
1983	Ponticas v. K.M.S. Investments	331 N.W.2d 907	138
1990	State v. Hannuksela	452 N.W.2d 668	131
1990	Johnson v. Morris	453 N.W.2d 31	127
1984	State v. Ture	353 N.W.2d 502	127

Showing the 15 most-cited of 330 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 Glenn E. Kelley on?: Glenn E. Kelley was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).