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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1936 / Served to 1950

Harry H. Peterson

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Harry H. Peterson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1936. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1985
Tenure: 1936–1950 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1936	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Peterson authored 430 published opinions for the court (1937–1950), plus 106 dissents and 35 concurrences. Most cited: Christensen v. Hennepin Transportation Co. Inc. (124 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. 45 of these were attributed to Peterson 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
1943	Christensen v. Hennepin Transportation Co. Inc.	10 N.W.2d 406	124
1941	Park Construction Co. v. Independent School District No. 32· Dissent	296 N.W. 475	93
1948	Mattfeld v. Nester	32 N.W.2d 291	87
1946	State v. Bolsinger	21 N.W.2d 480	86
1949	Loth v. Loth	35 N.W.2d 542	84
1949	Miller v. Monsen	37 N.W.2d 543	63
1946	The Alexander Co. v. City of Owatonna· Dissent	24 N.W.2d 244	59
1943	Gleason v. Geary· Dissent	8 N.W.2d 808	57
1950	Spiess v. Brandt· Dissent†	230 Minn. 246	54
1947	Moore v. Kujath· Concurrence	29 N.W.2d 883	54
1945	Medved v. Doolittle	19 N.W.2d 788	54
1945	Burnquist v. Cook· Dissent	19 N.W.2d 394	53
1937	Wenger v. Wenger	274 N.W. 517	53
1950	Harding v. Ohio Casualty Insurance†	230 Minn. 327	52
1948	Anderson v. City of St. Paul	32 N.W.2d 538	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 571 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 Harry H. Peterson on?: Harry H. Peterson 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).