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 1966 / Served to 1966

Williiam S. Murray

Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court

Williiam S. Murray was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–1998
Tenure: 1966–1966

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	North Dakota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota

Judicial Record

In our data, Murray authored 10 published opinions for the court (1966). Most cited: State v. Schlittenhardt (29 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. 1 of these was attributed to Murray 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
1966	State v. Schlittenhardt	147 N.W.2d 118	29
1966	Bismarck Hospital Association v. Burleigh County	146 N.W.2d 887	14
1966	State v. Berger	148 N.W.2d 331	11
1966	Waltman v. Austin	142 N.W.2d 517	10
1966	Budge v. Anderson	146 N.W.2d 169	9
1966	Pierce County Abstract Company v. Petterson	142 N.W.2d 620	7
1966	Erling v. Haman	144 N.W.2d 215	5
1966	State v. Wilson	142 N.W.2d 106	5
1966	W. T. Jennings Lumber Co. v. O'Callaghan†	143 N.W.2d 654	2
1966	Geller v. Sather	147 N.W.2d 661	0

Showing the 10 most-cited of 10 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 Williiam S. Murray on?: Williiam S. Murray was a Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1966. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).