List of justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court

Following is a list of persons who have served on the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Territorial Supreme Court justices

Justices of the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court. ^[1]

Name	Begin	End
Aaron Goodrich *	1849	1851
David Cooper	1849	1853
Bradley B. Meeker	1849	1853
Jerome Fuller *‡	1851	1852
Henry Z. Hayner * [note 1]	1851	1852
Andrew G. Chatfield	1853	1857
Moses Sherburne	1853	1857
William H. Welch *	1853	1858
Rensselaer Nelson	1857	1858
Charles Eugene Flandrau	1857	1858

1. Appointed by President Fillmore after U.S. Senate rejected Fuller's appointment, but arrived too late to preside over the court. The news of the rejection did not reach St. Paul until after Fuller had arrived and begun his duties as chief justice.

*-Chief Justice †-Elected ‡-Served as Chief Justice, but confirmation rejected by U.S. Senate

Chief justices

Chief Justice	Term
Aaron Goodrich	1849–1851
Jerome Fuller	1851–1852
Henry Z. Hayner	1851–1852
William H. Welch	1853–1858

All justices

Following is a list of all justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court. ^[1] Chief Justice terms are in bold.

Name	Method	Began service	Ended service
Charles Eugene Flandrau	Appointed	1858	1864
Isaac Atwater	Elected	1858	1864
LaFayette Emmett	Elected	1858	1865
Thomas Wilson	Appointed	1864 1865	1865 1869
John M. Berry	Elected	1865	1887
James Gilfillan	Appointed	1869 1875	1870 1894
Christopher G. Ripley	Elected	1870	1874
Samuel J. R. McMillan	Appointed	1864 1874	1874 1875
George B. Young	Appointed	1874	1875
Francis R. E. Cornell	Elected	1875	1881
Greenleaf Clark	Appointed	1881	1882
Daniel A. Dickinson	Appointed	1881	1893
William B. Mitchell	Appointed	1881	1900
Charles E. Vanderburgh	Elected	1882	1894
Loren W. Collins	Appointed	1887	1904
Daniel Buck	Elected	1894	1899
Thomas Canty	Elected	1894	1899
Charles M. Start	Elected	1895	1913
Calvin L. Brown	Appointed	1899 1913	1912 1923
John A. Lovely	Elected	1900	1905
Charles Lundy Lewis	Elected	1900	1912
Wallace B. Douglas	Elected	1904	1905
Charles B. Elliott	Appointed	1905	1909
Edwin A. Jaggard	Elected	1905	1911
Thomas D. O'Brien	Appointed	1909	1911
David F. Simpson	Elected	1911	1911
George Bunn	Appointed	1911 1913	1913 1918
Philip E. Brown	Appointed	1912	1915
Andrew Holt	Appointed	1912	1942
Oscar Hallam	Elected	1913	1923
Albert Schaller	Appointed	1915	1917
James H. Quinn	Elected	1917	1928
Homer B. Dibell	Appointed	1918	1934
Samuel B. Wilson	Appointed	1922	1933
Royal A. Stone	Appointed	1923	1942
Clifford L. Hilton	Appointed	1928	1943
Charles Loring	Appointed	1930 1944	1944 1953
Ingerval M. Olsen	Appointed	1930	1936
John P. Devaney	Appointed	1933	1937
Julius J. Olson	Appointed	1934	1948
Harry H. Peterson	Appointed	1936	1950
Henry M. Gallagher	Appointed	1937	1944
Maynard Pirsig	Appointed	1942	1942
Thomas O. Streissguth	Appointed	1942 1944	1942 1944
Luther Youngdahl	Elected	1943	1946
Clarence R. Magney	Appointed	1943	1953
Thomas F. Gallagher	Elected	1943	1967
Leroy E. Matson	Elected	1945	1960
William C. Christianson	Appointed	1946	1946
Frank T. Gallagher	Elected	1947	1963
Oscar Knutson	Appointed	1948 1962	1962 1973
Theodore Christianson	Appointed	1950	1955
Roger L. Dell	Appointed	1953 1953	1953 1962
Martin A. Nelson	Appointed	1953	1972
William P. Murphy	Appointed	1955	1972
Lee Loevinger	Appointed	1960	1961
James C. Otis	Appointed	1961	1982
Walter F. Rogosheske	Appointed	1962	1980
Robert Sheran	Appointed	1963 1973	1970 1981
C. Donald Peterson	Elected	1967	1986
Fallon Kelly	Appointed	1970	1980
Harry H. MacLaughlin	Appointed	1972	1977
John J. Todd	Appointed	1972	1985
George M. Scott	Appointed	1973	1987
Lawrence R. Yetka	Appointed	1973	1993
Rosalie E. Wahl	Appointed	1977	1994
John E. Simonett	Appointed	1980	1994
Douglas K. Amdahl	Appointed	1980 1981	1981 1989
Glenn E. Kelley	Appointed	1981	1990
Mary Jeanne Coyne	Appointed	1982	1996
Peter Popovich	Appointed	1987 1989	1989 1990
Sandy Keith	Appointed	1989 1990	1990 1998
Esther Tomljanovich	Appointed	1990	1998
Sandra Gardebring Ogren	Appointed	1991	1998
Alan Page	Elected	1993	2015
Edward C. Stringer	Appointed	1994	2002
Paul Anderson	Appointed	1994	2013
Kathleen A. Blatz	Appointed	1996 1998	1998 2006
Russell A. Anderson	Appointed	1998 2006	2006 2008
Joan N. Ericksen	Appointed	1998	2002
James H. Gilbert	Appointed	1998	2004
Sam Hanson	Appointed	2002	2008
Helen Meyer	Appointed	2002	2012
Barry Anderson	Appointed	2004	2024
Lorie Skjerven Gildea	Appointed	2006 2010	2010 2023
Eric J. Magnuson	Appointed	2008	2010
Christopher Dietzen	Appointed	2008	2016
David Stras	Appointed	2010	2018
Wilhelmina Wright	Appointed	2012	2016
David Lillehaug	Appointed	2013	2020
Natalie Hudson	Appointed	2015 2023	2023 Present
Margaret H. Chutich	Appointed	2016	2024
Anne McKeig	Appointed	2016	Present
Paul Thissen	Appointed	2018	Present
Gordon Moore	Appointed	2020	Present
Karl Procaccini	Appointed	2023	Present
Sarah Hennesy	Appointed	2024	Present
Theodora Gaïtas	Appointed	2024	Present

Chief justices

Chief Justice	Term
LaFayette Emmett	1858–1865
Thomas Wilson	1865–1869
James Gilfillan	1869–1870
Christopher G. Ripley	1870–1874
Samuel James Renwick McMillan	1874–1875
James Gilfillan	1875–1894
Charles M. Start	1895–1913
Calvin L. Brown	1913–1923
Samuel B. Wilson	1923–1933
John P. Devaney	1933–1937
Henry M. Gallagher	1937–1944
Charles Loring	1944–1953
Roger L. Dell	1953–1962
Oscar Knutson	1962–1973
Robert J. Sheran	1973–1981
Douglas K. Amdahl	1981–1989
Peter S. Popovich	1989–1990
Alexander M. Keith	1990–1998
Kathleen A. Blatz	1998–2006
Russell A. Anderson	2006–2008
Eric J. Magnuson	2008–2010
Lorie Skjerven Gildea	2010–2023
Natalie Hudson	2023–present

References

1. Chronological List of Justices and Judges of the Minnesota Appellate Courts Archived 2011-06-03 at the Wayback Machine