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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Montana Supreme Court / Joined 2018 / Active

Ingrid Gustafson

Justice, Montana Supreme Court

Ingrid Gustafson is a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Montana Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gustafson authored 86 published opinions for the court (2018–2026), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: In re D.E. (31 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. 90 of these were attributed to Gustafson 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
2018	In re D.E.†	423 P.3d 586	31
2018	Puryer v. HSBC Bank USA, Nat'l Ass'n†	419 P.3d 105	21
2019	State v. Laird· Concurrence†	447 P.3d 416	19
2018	State v. M. Hinshaw†	2018 MT 49	18
2019	Northcutt v. McLaughlin (In re G.M.N.)†	433 P.3d 715	17
2019	In re B.J.J.†	443 P.3d 488	15
2018	In re Williams†	425 P.3d 1277	14
2018	Marshall v. Safeco Ins. Co. of Ill.†	2018 MT 45	14
2019	State v. Santoro†	446 P.3d 1141	12
2018	State v. Hatfield†	426 P.3d 569	12
2019	In re E.Y.R.†	446 P.3d 1117	10
2019	State v. Reeves†	444 P.3d 394	10
2019	Norbeck v. Flathead Cnty.†	438 P.3d 811	10
2018	State v. Buckles†	420 P.3d 511	10
2018	In re I.M.†	414 P.3d 797	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 90 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 Montana Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Ingrid Gustafson on?: Ingrid Gustafson is a Justice of the Montana Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 years on the Montana Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).