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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 2002 / Served to 2012

Helen M. Meyer

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Helen M. Meyer was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2002–2012 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

William Mitchell College of Law

Judicial Record

In our data, Meyer authored 180 published opinions for the court (2002–2012), plus 57 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ramey (347 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. 153 of these were attributed to Meyer 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
2006	State v. Ramey	721 N.W.2d 294	347
2010	State v. Raleigh	778 N.W.2d 90	240
2010	State v. Andersen· Concurrence†	784 N.W.2d 320	190
2011	State v. Diede†	795 N.W.2d 836	184
2004	Opsahl v. State	677 N.W.2d 414	130
2012	State v. Fleck†	810 N.W.2d 303	122
2008	State v. Tscheu· Concurrence†	758 N.W.2d 849	113
2006	State v. Ness	707 N.W.2d 676	107
2006	State v. Mayhorn	720 N.W.2d 776	101
2007	State v. Mahkuk· Concurrence†	736 N.W.2d 675	98
2004	State v. Jones· Concurrence†	678 N.W.2d 1	94
2012	Staab v. Diocese of St. Cloud· Dissent†	813 N.W.2d 68	90
2004	State v. Anderson	683 N.W.2d 818	88
2008	In Re the Welfare of the Children of S.E.P.	744 N.W.2d 381	86
2006	Schroeder v. St. Louis County	708 N.W.2d 497	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 276 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 Helen M. Meyer on?: Helen M. Meyer was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).