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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1934 / Served to 1948

Julius J. Olson

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Julius J. Olson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1875–1955
Tenure: 1934–1948 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Olson authored 574 published opinions for the court (1934–1974), plus 42 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: McSherry v. City of St. Paul (60 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. 39 of these were attributed to Olson 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
1938	McSherry v. City of St. Paul	277 N.W. 541	60
1936	Skagerberg v. Blandin Paper Co.	266 N.W. 872	59
1943	Gleason v. Geary	8 N.W.2d 808	57
1944	Warner v. Warner	17 N.W.2d 58	52
1937	Minneapolis-Saint Paul Sanitary District v. Fitzpatrick	277 N.W. 394	52
1948	Anderson v. City of St. Paul· Dissent	32 N.W.2d 538	51
1937	State v. Fredlund	273 N.W. 353	51
1942	In Re Petition of S. R. A., Inc.	7 N.W.2d 484	48
1936	Ferraro v. Taylor· Dissent	265 N.W. 829	47
1974	Hansen v. City of Saint Paul	214 N.W.2d 346	46
1935	Eschenbach v. Benjamin	263 N.W. 154	45
1935	Gimmestad v. Rose Brothers Co. Inc.	261 N.W. 194	43
1938	Serr v. Biwabik Concrete Aggregate Co.	278 N.W. 355	38
1937	Hollister v. Ulvi	271 N.W. 493	38
1944	Waters v. Fiebelkorn	13 N.W.2d 461	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 624 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 Julius J. Olson on?: Julius J. Olson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

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14 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).