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 1993 / Served to 2005

William A. Neumann

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

William A. Neumann was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 1993–2005 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota
Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Neumann authored 497 published opinions for the court (1993–2005), plus 19 dissents and 46 concurrences. Most cited: Stout v. Stout (120 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. 108 of these were attributed to Neumann 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
1997	Stout v. Stout· Concurrence†	1997 ND 61	120
1998	Kautzman v. Kautzman	1998 ND 192	89
1993	Heley v. Heley	506 N.W.2d 715	84
2002	Kelly v. Kelly· Concurrence†	2002 ND 37	72
1998	State v. Steinbach	1998 ND 18	66
1996	State v. Winkler	552 N.W.2d 347	65
1998	State v. Kitchen	1997 ND 241	64
1998	Owens v. State	1998 ND 106	62
2000	Weigel v. Weigel	2000 ND 16	57
1993	Salter v. North Dakota Department of Transportation	505 N.W.2d 111	56
1993	Continental Casualty Co. v. Kinsey	499 N.W.2d 574	56
1993	Barstad v. Barstad· Dissent†	499 N.W.2d 584	56
2001	Hoverson v. Hoverson	2001 ND 124	55
1994	Kummer v. City of Fargo	516 N.W.2d 294	53
1995	State v. Ash· Concurrence†	526 N.W.2d 473	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 562 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 William A. Neumann on?: William A. Neumann was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).