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 1954 / Served to 1958

Nels G. Johnson

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Nels G. Johnson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1958
Tenure: 1954–1958 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 66 published opinions for the court (1954–1958), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Stormon v. Weiss (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. 9 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
1954	Stormon v. Weiss· Concurrence†	65 N.W.2d 475	60
1956	Williams Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.	79 N.W.2d 508	50
1955	Moe v. Kettwig	68 N.W.2d 853	43
1956	Kessler v. Thompson	75 N.W.2d 172	39
1955	In Re Kaspari's Estate	71 N.W.2d 558	37
1958	Otter Tail Power Company v. Malme	92 N.W.2d 514	34
1956	Hamre v. Senger	79 N.W.2d 41	33
1955	Killmer v. Duchscherer	72 N.W.2d 650	33
1956	Tice v. Mandel	76 N.W.2d 124	32
1954	Clark v. Josephson	66 N.W.2d 539	31
1956	Bilby v. Wire	77 N.W.2d 882	29
1955	Frandson v. Casey	73 N.W.2d 436	29
1955	State v. Hanson	73 N.W.2d 135	28
1955	Anderson v. Blixt	72 N.W.2d 799	26
1955	Fedorenko v. Rudman	71 N.W.2d 332	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 69 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 Nels G. Johnson on?: Nels G. Johnson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).