Gordon Moore | |
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Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court | |
Assumed office August 3, 2020 | |
Appointed by | Tim Walz |
Preceded by | David Lillehaug |
Personal details | |
Born | April 6,1963 |
Education | Carleton College (BA) University of Iowa (JD) |
Gordon L. Moore III (born April 6,1963) is an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He was a judge of the Minnesota Fifth District Court in Nobles County from 2012 to 2020.
Moore grew up in Rochester and graduated from Mayo High School. [1] He lived in Northfield and Mankato before moving to Worthington to raise a family in 1995. [2] He received a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College in 1985 and his Juris Doctor,with honors,from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1988. [3]
Moore was an associate attorney with the Worthington law office of Von Holtum,Malters &Shepherd,and served as Worthington's assistant city attorney. [4] Before becoming Nobles County attorney,he served as a special assistant and assistant attorney general under Attorney General of Minnesota Skip Humphrey and was an associate and assistant city attorney in Worthington. [2]
On January 18,2012,Governor Mark Dayton appointed Moore to the Minnesota Fifth Judicial District Court to the seat vacated by Judge Jeffrey L. Flynn,who retired. [4] He was sworn in on March 1,2012. [5]
Moore was one of four candidates considered by Governor Tim Walz,along with Court of Appeals Judges Diane Bratvold and Jeffrey Bryan,and Chief Deputy Attorney General John Keller. [2] On May 15,2020,Walz appointed Moore to the Minnesota Supreme Court. He filled the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice David Lillehaug. [6]
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