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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota / Joined 1984 / Served to 1989

Roger J. Nierengarten

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Roger J. Nierengarten was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–1989 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Nierengarten authored 422 published opinions for the court (1984–1991), plus 30 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Jadwin v. Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co. (34 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. 341 of these were attributed to Nierengarten 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
1986	Jadwin v. Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co.· Dissent†	390 N.W.2d 437	34
1985	Johnson v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	366 N.W.2d 347	34
1986	State v. Lewis†	394 N.W.2d 212	33
1986	Marriage of Halverson v. Halverson	381 N.W.2d 69	24
1989	Nichols v. Metropolitan Bank†	435 N.W.2d 637	22
1985	Spira v. American Standard Insurance Co.†	361 N.W.2d 454	21
1984	Dahlbeck v. DICO Co., Inc.†	355 N.W.2d 157	21
1989	Carlisle Ex Rel. Scott v. City of Minneapolis· Dissent†	437 N.W.2d 712	20
1986	State v. Carver†	380 N.W.2d 821	20
1985	Braegelmann v. Horizon Development Co.†	371 N.W.2d 644	20
1985	Roberts v. Commissioner of Public Safety	371 N.W.2d 605	19
1989	Vonch v. Carlson Companies, Inc.†	439 N.W.2d 406	18
1988	Olsen v. Special School Dist. No. 1	427 N.W.2d 707	18
1987	Wickstrom Ex Rel. Wickstrom v. Maplewood Toyota, Inc.†	416 N.W.2d 838	17
1987	Wood v. Mutual Service Casualty Insurance Co.†	415 N.W.2d 748	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 464 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 Court of Appeals of Minnesota reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Roger J. Nierengarten on?: Roger J. Nierengarten was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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5 years on the Court of Appeals of Minnesota. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).