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 1973 / Served to 1978

Robert Vogel

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Robert Vogel was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–2005
Tenure: 1973–1978 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Vogel authored 148 published opinions for the court (1973–1978), plus 32 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Arneson v. Olson (186 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. 65 of these were attributed to Vogel 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
1978	Arneson v. Olson	270 N.W.2d 125	186
1973	In Re Estate of Elmer	210 N.W.2d 815	161
1974	Johnson v. Hassett	217 N.W.2d 771	136
1977	Southern Valley Grain Dealers Ass'n v. Board of County Commissioners	257 N.W.2d 425	84
1974	State v. Matthews	216 N.W.2d 90	70
1978	Becker v. Becker· Concurrence†	262 N.W.2d 478	67
1975	Waletzko v. Herdegen	226 N.W.2d 648	64
1978	Nastrom v. Nastrom· Concurrence†	262 N.W.2d 487	62
1978	State v. Motsko	261 N.W.2d 860	56
1977	City of Bismarck v. Thom· Dissent†	261 N.W.2d 640	56
1973	State v. Haakenson	213 N.W.2d 394	51
1977	Cook v. Stenslie· Dissent†	251 N.W.2d 393	50
1975	City of Wahpeton v. Drake-Henne, Inc.	228 N.W.2d 324	50
1978	Newman Signs, Inc. v. Hjelle	268 N.W.2d 741	47
1976	Vallejo v. Jamestown College· Dissent†	244 N.W.2d 753	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 201 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 Robert Vogel on?: Robert Vogel was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).