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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1950 / Served to 1955

Theordore Christianson

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Theordore Christianson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1955
Tenure: 1950–1955 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Christianson authored 122 published opinions for the court (1950–1955), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Nepstad v. Lambert (64 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. 43 of these were attributed to Christianson 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
1951	Nepstad v. Lambert	235 Minn. 1	64
1955	Ahlstrom v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad	244 Minn. 1	59
1953	Arens v. Village of Rogers†	240 Minn. 386	50
1953	Hartmon v. National Heater Co.	240 Minn. 264	48
1950	Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Spaeth†	232 Minn. 128	41
1950	State v. End	232 Minn. 266	37
1954	Gamble-Skogmo, Inc. v. St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co.	242 Minn. 91	34
1955	Hildegarde, Inc. v. Wright	244 Minn. 410	30
1952	Vesey v. Vesey†	237 Minn. 295	30
1954	State v. Bollenbach†	241 Minn. 103	29
1951	Bellows v. Ericson	233 Minn. 320	29
1955	City of Crookston v. Erickson	244 Minn. 321	28
1953	Petro v. Martin Baking Co.	239 Minn. 307	27
1951	Lincoln v. Cambridge-Radisson Co.	235 Minn. 20	27
1950	Shaw v. Utecht	232 Minn. 82	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 125 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 Theordore Christianson on?: Theordore Christianson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).