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

Jon J. Jensen

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Jon J. Jensen 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, Jensen authored 102 published opinions for the court (2017–2026), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Pemberton (30 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. 108 of these were attributed to Jensen 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. Pemberton†	2019 ND 157	30
2018	Lill v. J.B. (In Re Interest of J.B.)· Dissent†	2018 ND 200	28
2018	Bakke v. Magi-Touch Carpet One Floor & Home, Inc.†	2018 ND 273	23
2017	Hallin v. Inland Oil & Gas Corporation†	2017 ND 254	21
2019	State v. Lott†	2019 ND 18	17
2018	Schultz v. Schultz†	2018 ND 259	17
2019	Lee v. Lee†	927 N.W.2d 104	16
2018	Green v. Swiers†	2018 ND 258	16
2019	Estate of Brandt†	2019 ND 87	15
2019	Dick v. Erman†	2019 ND 54	15
2018	Berg v. Berg†	2018 ND 79	15
2019	State v. Bearrunner†	2019 ND 29	14
2018	Pettinger v. Carroll†	2018 ND 140	14
2018	James Vault & Precast Co. v. B&B Hot Oil Service, Inc.†	2018 ND 63	14
2019	Puklich v. Puklich†	2019 ND 154	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 108 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 Jon J. Jensen on?: Jon J. Jensen 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).