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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1953 / Served to 1962

Roger L. Dell

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Roger L. Dell was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1966
Tenure: 1953–1962 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dell authored 190 published opinions for the court (1953–1962), plus 21 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Lunderberg v. Bierman (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. 59 of these were attributed to Dell 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
1954	Lunderberg v. Bierman	241 Minn. 349	98
1961	Fussner v. Andert· Dissent†	261 Minn. 347	95
1954	Cameron v. Evans	241 Minn. 200	91
1955	Royal Realty Co. v. Levin	244 Minn. 288	77
1960	Carpenter v. Nelson	257 Minn. 424	68
1958	McCourtie v. United States Steel Corp.· Concurrence†	253 Minn. 501	65
1954	Roberge v. Cambridge Cooperative Creamery Co.	243 Minn. 230	62
1954	Johnson v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad· Concurrence†	243 Minn. 58	60
1958	Bergseth v. Zinsmaster Baking Co.	252 Minn. 63	54
1958	Smith v. Hubbard	253 Minn. 215	53
1959	Wilson v. Sorge	256 Minn. 125	51
1958	Sommers v. Thomas	251 Minn. 461	50
1954	Nyberg v. R. N. Cardozo & Brother, Inc.	243 Minn. 361	47
1960	State v. Keaton	258 Minn. 359	44
1954	Ryan v. Griffin	241 Minn. 91	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 221 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 Roger L. Dell on?: Roger L. Dell was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

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8 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).