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- ↑ "Judge Michelle Ann Larkin". Minnesota Judicial Branch. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- 1 2 "Biographies of Judges of the Minnesota Court of Appeals: Larkin, Michelle A." Minnesota State Law Library. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
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