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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1994 / Served to 2013

Paul H. Anderson

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Paul H. Anderson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1994–2013 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 55 published opinions for the court (1994–1997), plus 7 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: DLH, Inc. v. Russ (353 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. 16 of these were attributed to Anderson 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	DLH, Inc. v. Russ	566 N.W.2d 60	353
1995	SCSC Corp. v. Allied Mutual Insurance Co.	536 N.W.2d 305	127
1995	State v. Zanter	535 N.W.2d 624	111
1997	Watson v. United Services Automobile Ass'n	566 N.W.2d 683	106
1996	O'MALLEY v. Ulland Bros.	549 N.W.2d 889	96
1997	Art Goebel, Inc. v. North Suburban Agencies, Inc.	567 N.W.2d 511	92
1997	Perkins v. State	559 N.W.2d 678	91
1996	Watson v. Metropolitan Transit Commission	553 N.W.2d 406	85
1996	State v. Cole	542 N.W.2d 43	83
1997	State v. Camacho	561 N.W.2d 160	76
1996	Johnson v. State	553 N.W.2d 40	76
1995	Roby v. State	531 N.W.2d 482	75
1995	State v. Williams	535 N.W.2d 277	74
1996	State v. Krotzer· Dissent†	548 N.W.2d 252	63
1995	State v. Bookwalter	541 N.W.2d 290	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 Paul H. Anderson on?: Paul H. Anderson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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18 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).