Prior to law school, Tufte was a computer engineer for
Motorola. After graduating from law school, he was a law clerk to Judge
Roger Leland Wollman of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 2002 to 2003. He worked private practice in
Phoenix, Arizona and
Steele, North Dakota. He served as district judge chambered at the
Barnes County Courthouse in
Valley City from 2014 to 2016. He was elected to the Supreme Court in 2016 and took office January 1, 2017. == References ==