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 1965 / Served to 1975

Harvey B. Knudson

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Harvey B. Knudson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1978
Tenure: 1965–1975 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Knudson authored 50 published opinions for the court (1965–1974), plus 9 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Matthews (70 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. 23 of these were attributed to Knudson 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
1974	State v. Matthews· Concurrence†	216 N.W.2d 90	70
1974	Johnson Ex Rel. Johnson v. American Motors Corp.	225 N.W.2d 57	67
1974	Lund v. Hjelle	224 N.W.2d 552	67
1969	Lembke v. Unke· Dissent†	171 N.W.2d 837	54
1973	State v. Haakenson· Dissent†	213 N.W.2d 394	51
1966	Stetson v. Investors Oil, Inc.	140 N.W.2d 349	39
1968	Wolff v. Light	156 N.W.2d 175	37
1974	Wentz Ex Rel. Wentz v. Deseth· Dissent†	221 N.W.2d 101	35
1972	State v. Julson	202 N.W.2d 145	33
1968	Jamestown Plumbing & Heating Co. v. City of Jamestown	164 N.W.2d 355	26
1974	Pollock v. McKenzie County Public School District 1· Dissent†	221 N.W.2d 521	25
1967	Titus v. Titus	154 N.W.2d 391	24
1966	City of Fargo v. Annexation Review Commission of Cass County	148 N.W.2d 338	24
1974	King v. Montz	219 N.W.2d 836	22
1971	Feil v. Wishek· Dissent†	193 N.W.2d 218	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 71 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 Harvey B. Knudson on?: Harvey B. Knudson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).