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Carol Ronning Kapsner (born November 25, 1947) is a former Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. Carol Ronning Kapsner was born and raised in Bismarck, North Dakota. She graduated with B.A. degree in English literature from College of St. Catherine, studied 17th-century English literature at Oxford University, received a Master of Arts degree in English literature from Indiana University, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, Colorado in 1977. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1998. She retired from active service on July 31, 2017. [1]

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  1. Smith, Nick (April 25, 2017). "Supreme Court Justice Carol Kapsner to resign in July". The Bismarck Tribune . Retrieved August 28, 2017.