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 1975 / Served to 1985

Vernon R. Pederson

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Vernon R. Pederson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1919 · age 107
Tenure: 1975–1985 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Pederson authored 358 published opinions for the court (1975–1985), plus 65 dissents and 90 concurrences. Most cited: Hughes v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (111 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. 193 of these were attributed to Pederson 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
1975	Hughes v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.· Dissent†	236 N.W.2d 870	111
1984	State v. Kringstad· Dissent†	353 N.W.2d 302	75
1978	Becker v. Becker	262 N.W.2d 478	67
1977	Olson v. A. W. Chesterton Co.	256 N.W.2d 530	66
1976	Farmers Cooperative Ass'n of Churchs Ferry v. Cole	239 N.W.2d 808	64
1978	Nastrom v. Nastrom	262 N.W.2d 487	62
1979	Hoge v. Hoge	281 N.W.2d 557	61
1975	Hospital Services, Inc. v. Brooks· Dissent†	229 N.W.2d 69	61
1984	Seablom v. Seablom· Concurrence†	348 N.W.2d 920	60
1980	State v. Carpenter· Dissent†	301 N.W.2d 106	60
1975	Beck v. Lind· Concurrence†	235 N.W.2d 239	56
1977	State v. Jelliff	251 N.W.2d 1	55
1982	State v. Trieb· Concurrence†	315 N.W.2d 649	54
1977	State v. Ghylin	250 N.W.2d 252	54
1983	Layman v. Braunschweigische Maschinenbauanstalt, Inc.· Concurrence†	343 N.W.2d 334	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 513 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 Vernon R. Pederson on?: Vernon R. Pederson was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).