How do judges of the North Dakota Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

North Dakota Supreme Court / Joined 1949 / Served to 1958

Gudmundur Grimson

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Gudmundur Grimson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1965
Tenure: 1949–1958 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Grimson authored 141 published opinions for the court (1928–1958), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Ferch v. Housing Authority of Cass County (56 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. 19 of these were attributed to Grimson 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
1953	Ferch v. Housing Authority of Cass County	59 N.W.2d 849	56
1951	Hoffer v. Burd†	78 N.D. 278	37
1948	Weber v. United Hardware & Implement Mutuals Co.	31 N.W.2d 456	36
1952	Anderson v. Peterson	54 N.W.2d 542	35
1955	State v. Tjaden	69 N.W.2d 272	33
1958	Lake v. Neubauer	87 N.W.2d 888	32
1952	Mann v. Policyholders' National Life Insurance	51 N.W.2d 853	31
1953	Farmers Ins. Exchange v. Arlt	61 N.W.2d 429	29
1953	State Ex Rel. Workmen's Compensation Fund v. E.W. Wylie Co.	58 N.W.2d 76	29
1957	Quam Ex Rel. Quam v. Wengert	86 N.W.2d 741	27
1951	McDermott v. Sway	50 N.W.2d 235	27
1953	Dahl v. North American Creameries, Inc.	61 N.W.2d 916	26
1950	Newman v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.	43 N.W.2d 411	26
1948	Larson v. Cole	33 N.W.2d 325	26
1957	Johnson v. Johnson· Dissent†	85 N.W.2d 211	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 147 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 North Dakota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Gudmundur Grimson on?: Gudmundur Grimson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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