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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 1946 / Served to 1946

William C. Christianson

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

William C. Christianson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1946. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1946–1946

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1946	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Christianson authored 14 published opinions for the court (1946). Most cited: The Alexander Co. v. City of Owatonna (59 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. 2 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
1946	The Alexander Co. v. City of Owatonna	24 N.W.2d 244	59
1946	Maust v. Maust	23 N.W.2d 537	28
1946	American Surety Co. of New York v. Greenwald	25 N.W.2d 681	21
1946	Blankholm v. Fearing	22 N.W.2d 853	12
1946	Thorwald v. Schmahl	24 N.W.2d 273	10
1946	Heinsch v. Kirby	24 N.W.2d 493	7
1946	In Re Trust Under Will of Jones	22 N.W.2d 633	7
1946	Louko v. Village of Hibbing	25 N.W.2d 234	5
1946	Baker v. MacGillis Gibbs Co.	25 N.W.2d 219	5
1946	Bliss v. Griswold	25 N.W.2d 302	4
1946	LeBorius v. Reynolds†	222 Minn. 31	3
1946	Rowell v. First Minneapolis Trust Co.†	221 Minn. 524	3
1946	In Re Estate of Leborius	23 N.W.2d 1	2
1946	Roeder v. Kruger	25 N.W.2d 686	1

Showing the 14 most-cited of 14 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 William C. Christianson on?: William C. Christianson was a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1946. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).