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

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

South Dakota Supreme Court / Joined 1957 / Served to 1959

Harold Bogue Jr.

Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court

Harold Bogue Jr. was a Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1959
Tenure: 1957–1959 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	South Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bogue authored 16 published opinions for the court (1957–1994), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Dwyer v. Christensen (95 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. 2 of these were attributed to Bogue 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
1958	Dwyer v. Christensen	92 N.W.2d 199	95
1958	Kressly v. Kressly	87 N.W.2d 601	59
1958	Bartlett v. Gregg	92 N.W.2d 654	40
1991	Matter of Discipline of Simpson	467 N.W.2d 921	32
1989	Norwest Bank South Dakota, N.A. v. Venners	440 N.W.2d 774	26
1958	Larson v. Western Underwriters, Inc.	87 N.W.2d 883	24
1958	Application of Jerrel	93 N.W.2d 614	21
1957	Morrell Livestock Co. v. Stockman's Commission Co.	86 N.W.2d 533	19
1994	Iversen v. Wall Board of Education	522 N.W.2d 188	16
1959	Bailey v. Bailey	95 N.W.2d 533	15
1958	Reichert v. Reichert	90 N.W.2d 403	11
1959	State v. Devericks	94 N.W.2d 348	10
1970	Ford v. Hochstetter	176 N.W.2d 501	9
1958	Mellgren Plumbing Shop v. Lewis and Tinsley, Inc.· Concurrence†	90 N.W.2d 78	6
1958	Siedenburg v. Sommerfeld	90 N.W.2d 77	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 South Dakota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Harold Bogue Jr. on?: Harold Bogue Jr. was a Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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