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 1975 / Served to 1984

Paul M. Sand

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Paul M. Sand was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1984
Tenure: 1975–1984 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Sand authored 360 published opinions for the court (1975–1985), plus 8 dissents and 56 concurrences. Most cited: In Interest of FH (98 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. 100 of these were attributed to Sand 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
1979	In Interest of FH	283 N.W.2d 202	98
1984	Union State Bank v. Woell	357 N.W.2d 234	73
1976	State v. Howe	247 N.W.2d 647	73
1979	Bartels v. City of Williston	276 N.W.2d 113	70
1978	Steele v. North Dakota Workmen's Compensation Bureau	273 N.W.2d 692	70
1982	State v. Skjonsby	319 N.W.2d 764	62
1979	Winkjer v. Herr	277 N.W.2d 579	62
1983	First National Bank of Hettinger v. Clark	332 N.W.2d 264	61
1984	Mauch v. Manufacturers Sales & Service, Inc.· Concurrence†	345 N.W.2d 338	60
1977	City of Bismarck v. Thom	261 N.W.2d 640	56
1975	Beck v. Lind	235 N.W.2d 239	56
1983	Layman v. Braunschweigische Maschinenbauanstalt, Inc.· Concurrence†	343 N.W.2d 334	53
1978	Applegren v. Milbank Mutual Insurance Co.	268 N.W.2d 114	53
1977	Albers v. NoDak Racing Club, Inc.	256 N.W.2d 355	51
1977	Cook v. Stenslie	251 N.W.2d 393	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 424 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 Paul M. Sand on?: Paul M. Sand was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).