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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1987 / Served to 1990

Peter S. Popovich

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Peter S. Popovich was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–1996
Tenure: 1987–1990 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Popovich authored 67 published opinions for the court (1987–1990), plus 28 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Thiele v. Stich (1,003 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. 45 of these were attributed to Popovich 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
1988	Thiele v. Stich	425 N.W.2d 580	1,003
1990	State Ex Rel. Cooper v. French· Dissent†	460 N.W.2d 2	632
1988	Offerdahl v. University of Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics	426 N.W.2d 425	379
1988	Elwood v. County of Rice	423 N.W.2d 671	212
1989	In Re Haggerty	448 N.W.2d 363	148
1989	State v. Schwartz	447 N.W.2d 422	141
1988	State v. Bias	419 N.W.2d 480	110
1990	In Re the Welfare of M.D.O.	462 N.W.2d 370	104
1988	Sartori v. Harnischfeger Corp.	432 N.W.2d 448	96
1990	State v. Hershberger	462 N.W.2d 393	94
1988	Johnson v. Consolidated Freightways, Inc.	420 N.W.2d 608	94
1990	Dokmo v. Independent School District No. 11	459 N.W.2d 671	92
1988	State v. Flores	418 N.W.2d 150	92
1989	State v. Hennum	441 N.W.2d 793	83
1988	State v. Buchanan	431 N.W.2d 542	79

Showing the 15 most-cited of 103 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 Peter S. Popovich on?: Peter S. Popovich was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).