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 1996 / Served to 2013

Mary Muehlen Maring

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Mary Muehlen Maring was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 1996–2013 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Maring authored 640 published opinions for the court (1996–2013), plus 67 dissents and 98 concurrences. Most cited: Stout v. Stout (120 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. 323 of these were attributed to Maring 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
1997	Stout v. Stout	1997 ND 61	120
2013	State v. Holly†	2013 ND 94	101
2000	Hendrickson v. Hendrickson	2000 ND 1	91
2006	State v. Woinarowicz	2006 ND 179	80
1999	Hawkinson v. Hawkinson· Concurrence†	1999 ND 58	77
2002	Kelly v. Kelly· Concurrence†	2002 ND 37	72
1999	Hoff v. Berg	1999 ND 115	69
2007	Riverwood Commercial Park, L.L.C. v. Standard Oil Co.	2007 ND 36	65
2002	City of Jamestown v. Jerome	2002 ND 34	60
2003	State v. Fields	2003 ND 81	58
2001	Sommer v. Sommer	2001 ND 191	56
1999	Riehl v. Riehl	1999 ND 107	56
2008	Cass County State's Attorney v. R.A.S.†	756 N.W.2d 771	55
1999	In the Interest of M.D.†	1999 ND 160	55
2005	Amerada Hess Corp. v. State Ex Rel. Tax Commissioner	2005 ND 155	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 805 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 was Mary Muehlen Maring on?: Mary Muehlen Maring was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

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17 years on the North Dakota Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).