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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1937 / Served to 1944

Henry M. Gallagher

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Henry M. Gallagher was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1965
Tenure: 1937–1944 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Creighton University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gallagher authored 193 published opinions for the court (1937–1942), plus 37 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Pearson v. Probate Court (101 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. 42 of these were attributed to Gallagher 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
1939	State Ex Rel. Pearson v. Probate Court	287 N.W. 297	101
1941	Park Construction Co. v. Independent School District No. 32· Dissent	296 N.W. 475	93
1939	State v. Saporen· Dissent	285 N.W. 898	72
1937	Pacific Fire Insurance v. Kenny Boiler & Manufacturing Co.	277 N.W. 226	71
1939	State v. Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Co.	284 N.W. 294	67
1939	Stark v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States	285 N.W. 466	50
1940	Linder v. Foster	295 N.W. 299	42
1938	State v. Northwest Poultry & Egg Co.	281 N.W. 753	40
1942	Olson v. Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Co.· Dissent†	5 N.W.2d 492	36
1941	Kellerman v. City of St. Paul	1 N.W.2d 378	34
1937	Reid v. Independent Union of All Workers· Concurrence	275 N.W. 300	33
1940	Bulau v. Bulau	294 N.W. 845	30
1942	Hubenette v. Ostby†	6 N.W.2d 637	28
1942	Elsenpeter v. Potvin†	5 N.W.2d 499	28
1940	Dimke v. Finke	295 N.W. 75	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 236 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 Henry M. Gallagher on?: Henry M. Gallagher was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).