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 2017 / Active

Jerod E. Tufte

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Jerod E. Tufte is a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Tufte authored 121 published opinions for the court (2017–2026), plus 2 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Morales (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. 128 of these were attributed to Tufte 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
2019	State v. Morales†	2019 ND 206	31
2018	Lill v. J.B. (In Re Interest of J.B.)†	2018 ND 200	28
2017	State v. Gray· Concurrence†	2017 ND 108	28
2018	State v. Rogers†	919 N.W.2d 193	24
2017	Myers v. State†	2017 ND 66	24
2018	Schoon v. N.D. Dep't of Transportation†	2018 ND 210	21
2019	Brewer v. State†	2019 ND 69	20
2017	O'Hara v. Schneider†	2017 ND 53	20
2017	State v. Truelove†	2017 ND 283	19
2017	Booth v. State†	2017 ND 97	19
2017	State v. Carson†	2017 ND 196	18
2018	Rustad v. Baumgartner†	2018 ND 268	17
2018	N.D. Legislative Assembly v. Burgum†	2018 ND 189	17
2018	Kovalevich v. State†	2018 ND 184	16
2018	Gerrity Bakken, LLC v. Oasis Petroleum North America LLC†	2018 ND 180	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 128 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 is Jerod E. Tufte on?: Jerod E. Tufte is a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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