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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1960 / Served to 1961

Lee Loevinger

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Lee Loevinger was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–2004
Tenure: 1960–1961 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Loevinger authored 21 published opinions for the court (1960–1961), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hendrickson v. Minnesota Power & Light Co. (145 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. 7 of these were attributed to Loevinger 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
1960	Hendrickson v. Minnesota Power & Light Co.†	258 Minn. 368	145
1960	Hendrickson v. Minnesota Power & Light Co.	258 Minn. 368	103
1961	Dellwo v. Pearson	259 Minn. 452	75
1960	Fugina v. Donovan	259 Minn. 35	48
1960	Baehr v. Penn-O-Tex Oil Corp.	258 Minn. 533	46
1960	HOUSING & REDEVEL. AUTHOR. OF MINNEAPOLIS v. Mpls. Metropolitan Co.· Concurrence†	259 Minn. 1	42
1960	City of St. Paul v. Morris· Dissent†	258 Minn. 467	41
1961	Lange v. Nelson-Ryan Flight Service, Inc.	259 Minn. 460	29
1961	State Ex Rel. Farrington v. Rigg	259 Minn. 483	21
1960	State Ex Rel. Turnbladh v. DISTRICT COURT OF RAMSEY COUNTY	259 Minn. 228	18
1961	In Re Application of Strand for Reinstatement to Practice Law	259 Minn. 379	17
1960	In Re Trust Created by Will of Patrick	259 Minn. 193	17
1960	Gethsemane Lutheran Church v. Zacho	258 Minn. 438	14
1960	State Ex Rel. La Jesse v. Meisinger	258 Minn. 297	14
1960	Capitola v. MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL & SAULT STE. MARIE RAILROAD CO.	258 Minn. 206	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 24 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 Lee Loevinger on?: Lee Loevinger was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year 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).