Roger L. Dell (July 19, 1897 – March 8, 1966) was an American businessman, lawyer, and jurist.
Born in Bird Island, Minnesota, Dell graduated from Shakopee High School in Shakopee, Minnesota, in 1916. He received his law degree, in 1920, from Saint Paul College of Law (now William Mitchell College of Law). He was admitted to the Minnesota Bar and moved to Fergus Falls. He practiced there with several different law partners until Governor C. Elmer Anderson appointed him to the Minnesota Supreme Court in January 1953. He served as chief justice from 1953 to 1962. After his retirement in 1962, Dell managed and was president of Fergus Properties. Dell died in a hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota of a heart attack just before he was going undergo heart surgery. [1] [2]
Bird Island is a city on U.S. Route 212 in Renville County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,042 at the 2010 census.
Shakopee is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Minnesota. It is located southwest of downtown Minneapolis. Sited on the south bank bend of the Minnesota River, Shakopee and nearby suburbs comprise the southwest portion of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the sixteenth-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with 3.3 million people. The population of Shakopee was 37,076 at the 2010 census.
William Mitchell College of Law was a private, independent law school located in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, from 1956 to 2015. Accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), it offered full- and part-time legal education in pursuit of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. On December 9, 2015, William Mitchell closed its doors, merging with its longtime rival, the Hamline University School of Law, and became the Mitchell Hamline School of Law.
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