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 1959 / Served to 1974

Obert C. Teigen

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Obert C. Teigen was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1978
Tenure: 1959–1974 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Teigen authored 238 published opinions for the court (1955–1974), plus 47 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: Fischer v. Fischer (299 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. 123 of these were attributed to Teigen 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
1966	Fischer v. Fischer· Concurrence†	139 N.W.2d 845	299
1973	In Re Estate of Elmer· Dissent†	210 N.W.2d 815	161
1971	State v. Iverson· Concurrence†	187 N.W.2d 1	86
1974	State v. Matthews· Dissent†	216 N.W.2d 90	70
1967	Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Johanneson· Dissent†	153 N.W.2d 414	61
1965	Larson v. Meyer	135 N.W.2d 145	56
1969	Geo. E. Haggart, Inc. v. North Dakota Workmen's Compensation Bureau· Dissent†	171 N.W.2d 104	55
1969	Lembke v. Unke· Dissent†	171 N.W.2d 837	54
1973	State v. Haakenson· Dissent†	213 N.W.2d 394	51
1972	State v. Champagne· Dissent†	198 N.W.2d 218	50
1973	Nelson Paving Co., Inc. v. Hjelle· Dissent†	207 N.W.2d 225	49
1972	State v. Schlosser	202 N.W.2d 136	44
1966	Woodland v. Woodland	147 N.W.2d 590	42
1974	Ellendale Farmers Union Cooperative Ass'n v. Davis	219 N.W.2d 829	41
1974	Seibel v. Symons Corporation· Dissent†	221 N.W.2d 50	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 324 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 Obert C. Teigen on?: Obert C. Teigen was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).