The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The court hears cases in the Supreme Court chamber in the Minnesota State Capitol or in the nearby Minnesota Judicial Center.
Kathleen Anne Blatz is a former Minnesota judge and legislator. She served as the interim chair of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority,which governs the U.S. Bank Stadium.
The number of women in the United States judiciary has increased as more women have entered law school,but women still face significant barriers in pursuing legal careers.
Lorie Skjerven Gildea is an American attorney. She served as chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from her appointment by Governor Tim Pawlenty in 2010 until her retirement on October 1,2023. She served as an associate justice of the Court from 2006 to 2010 and as a district judge for Hennepin County in the Fourth Judicial District from 2005 to 2006.
John E. Simonett was an attorney and associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He was famous for his wit and thoughtfulness,characteristics reflected both in his judicial opinions,and in his writings and speeches. In 2007,he was named one of the 100 most influential attorneys in Minnesota history. Of his six daughters and sons,two became judges,one serving as the fourth Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 1994 to 1995.
Douglas Kenneth Amdahl was an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. He served as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from December 1981 to January 1989.
Robert Trimble was a lawyer and jurist who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals,as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1826 to his death in 1828. During his brief Supreme Court tenure he authored several majority opinions,including the decision in Ogden v. Saunders,which was the only majority opinion that Chief Justice John Marshall ever dissented from during his 34 years on the Court.
Sara Rosalie Wahl was an American feminist,lawyer,public defender,clinical law professor,and judge. She was the first woman to serve on the Minnesota Supreme Court where she served for seventeen years. Governor Rudy Perpich nominated Wahl to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1977 and Wahl won the election to the seat in a non-partisan election in 1978,defeating three male candidates. She chaired the state's Gender Bias Taskforce and Racial Bias Taskforce and led the American Bar Association's efforts to establish clinical legal education. She was a champion for the mentally ill and for displaced homemakers. She wrote 549 opinions including for the majority in holding that different penalties for crack and powder cocaine were unconstitutional in State v. Russell .
Margaret Helen Chutich is an American lawyer and judge who served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 2016 to 2024. She was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton. She previously served as a judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Wilhelmina Marie Wright is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She is the only jurist in Minnesota's history to be state district court judge,appellate court judge and state supreme court justice. She was formerly an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court,a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals,and a judge of the Minnesota District Court,Second Judicial District.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 4,2014. All of Minnesota's executive officers were up for election as well as all the seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives,several state judicial seats,a United States Senate seat,all of Minnesota's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives,and several seats for local offices. A primary election was held on August 12,2014,to nominate major political party candidates for partisan offices and candidates for nonpartisan offices.
Natalie E. Hudson is an American attorney serving since 2023 as the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. From 2015 to 2023 she served as associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 6,2018. All of Minnesota's executive officers were up for election as well as all the seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives,several judicial seats,two United States Senate seats,Minnesota's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives,and several seats for local offices. Special elections were also held for a Minnesota Senate seat and Minnesota's Class 2 U.S. Senate seat. A primary election to nominate Republican and Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) candidates and several judicial and local primary elections were held on August 14,2018.
Nancy Ellen Brasel is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
The Mitchell Hamline Law Review is a student-run law review published by students at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul,Minnesota. The journal publishes five full issues each academic year. Additionally,the law review maintains an online Amicus Curiae blog where it publishes brief articles about novel legal developments. The journal's mission is to "provide a scholarly forum for the advancement of legal theory and practice by publishing articles of academic merit and practical importance to the local and national legal community." The law review is a product of 2015 Hamline University School of Law and William Mitchell College of Law merger.
Theodora Gaïtas is an American lawyer who has served as a associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 2024. She served as a judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 2020 to 2024.
Sarah E. Hennesy is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
