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Biographies of Minnesota Supreme Court Justices

Justices of the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court (1849 - 1858)

1.  Aaron Goodrich [ Appointed ] (C.J. 1849-1851)
2.  David Cooper [ Appointed ] (1849-1853)
3.  Bradley B. Meeker [ Appointed ] (1849-1853)
4.  Jerome Fuller [ Appointed ] (C.J. 1851-1852)
5.  Henry Z. Hayner [ Appointed ] (C.J. 1852-1853)
6.  Andrew G. Chatfield [ Appointed ] (1853-1857)
7.  Moses Sherburne [ Appointed ] (1853-1857)
8.  William H. Welch [ Appointed ] (C.J. 1853-1858)
9.  Rensselaer R. Nelson [ Appointed ] (1857-1858)
10.  Charles Eugene Flandrau [ Appointed]  (1857-1858)

Justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1858 - 

1. Charles Eugene Flandrau [ Appointed ] (1858-1864)
2. Isaac Atwater [ Elected ] (1858-1864)
3. Lafayette Emmett [ Elected ] (C.J. 1858-1865)
4. Thomas Wilson [ Appointed ] (J. 1864-1865; C.J. 1865-1869)
5. Samuel J. R. McMillan [Appointed] (J. 1864-1874; C.J. 1874-1875)
6. John M. Berry [ Elected ] (1865-1887)
7. James Gilfillan [ Appointed ] (C.J. 1869-1870; C.J. 1875-1894)
8. Christopher G. Ripley [ Elected ] (C.J. 1870-1874)
9. George B. Young [ Appointed ] (1874-1875)
10. F. R. E. Cornell [ Elected ] (1875-1881)
11. William Mitchell [ Appointed ] (1881-1900)
12. Greenleaf Clark [ Appointed ] (1881-1882)
13. Daniel A. Dickinson [ Appointed ] (1881-1893)
14. Charles E. Vanderburgh [ Elected ] (1882-1894)
15. Loren W. Collins [ Appointed ] (1887-1904)
16. Daniel Buck [ Elected ] (1894-1899)
17. Thomas Canty [ Elected ] (1894-1899)
18. Charles M. Start [ Elected ] (C.J. 1895-1913)
19. Calvin L. Brown [ Appointed ] (J. 1899-1912; C.J. 1913-1923)
20. John A. Lovely [ Elected ] (1900-1905)
21. Charles L. Lewis [ Elected ] (1900-1912)
22. Wallace B. Douglas [ Elected ] (1904-1905)
23. Edwin A. Jaggard [ Elected ] (1905-1911)
24. Charles B. Elliott [ Appointed ] (1905-1909)
25. Thomas D. O'Brien [ Appointed ] (1909-1911)
26. David F. Simpson [ Elected ] (1911)
27. George L. Bunn [ Appointed ] (1911-1913; 1913-1918)
28. Philip E. Brown [ Appointed ] (1912-1915)
29. Andrew Holt [ Appointed ] (1912-1942)
30. Oscar Hallam [ Appointed ] (1913-1923)
31. Albert Schaller [ Appointed ] (1915-1917)
32. James H. Quinn [ Elected ] (1917-1928)
33. Homer B. Dibell [ Appointed ] (1918-1934)
34. Samuel B. Wilson [ Appointed ] (C.J. 1923-1933)
35. Royal A. Stone [ Appointed ] (1923-1942)
36. Clifford L. Hilton [ Appointed ] (1928-1943)
37. Ingerval M. Olsen [ Appointed ] (1930-1936)
38. Charles Loring [ Appointed ] (J. 1930-1944; C.J. 1944-1953)
39. John P. Devaney [ Appointed ] (C.J. 1933-1937)
40. Julius J. Olson [ Appointed ] (1934-1948)
41. Harry H. Peterson [ Appointed ] (1936-1950)
42. Henry M. Gallagher [ Appointed ] (C.J. 1937-1944)
43. Thomas O. Streissguth [ Appointed ] (1942-1942; 1944-1944)
44. Maynard E. Pirsig [ Appointed ] (1942-1942)
45. Luther W. Youngdahl [ Appointed ] (1942-1946)
46. Thomas F. Gallagher [ Elected ] (1943-1967)
47. Clarence R. Magney [ Appointed ] (1943-1953)
48. Leroy E. Matson [ Elected ] (1945-1960)
49. William C. Christianson [ Appointed]  (1946-1946)
50. Frank T. Gallagher [ Elected ] (1947-1963)
51. Oscar R. Knutson [ Appointed ] (J. 1948-1962; C.J. 1962-1973)
52. Theodore Christianson [ Appointed ] (1950-1955)
53. Roger L. Dell [ Appointed ] (J. 1953; C.J. 1953-1962)
54. Martin A. Nelson [ Appointed ] (1953-1972)
55. William P. Murphy [ Appointed ] (1955-1972)
56. Lee Loevinger [ Appointed ]  (1960-1961)
57. James C. Otis [ Appointed ] (1961-1982)
58. Walter F. Rogosheske [ Appointed ] (1962-1980)
59. Robert J. Sheran [ Appointed ] (J. 1963-1970; C.J. 1973-1981)
60. C. Donald Peterson [ Elected ] (1967-1986)
61. Fallon Kelly [ Appointed ] (1970-1980)
62. John J. Todd [ Appointed ] (1972-1985)
63. Harry H. MacLaughlin [ Appointed ] (1972-1977)
64. Lawrence R. Yetka [ Appointed ] (1973-1993)
65. George M. Scott [ Appointed ] (1973-1987)
66. Rosalie E. Wahl [ Appointed ] (1977-1994)
67. Douglas K. Amdahl [ Appointed ] (J. 1980-1981; C.J. 1981-1989)
68. John E. Simonett [ Appointed ] (1981-1994)
69. Glenn E. Kelley [ Appointed ] (1981-1990)
70. M. Jeanne Coyne [ Appointed ] (1982-1996)
71. Peter S. Popovich [ Appointed ] (J. 1987-1989; C.J. 1989-1990)
72. Alexander M. (Sandy) Keith [ Appointed ] (J. 1989-1990; C.J. 1990-1998)
73. Esther M. Tomljanovich [ Appointed ] (1990-1998)
74. Sandra S. Gardebring [ Appointed ] (1991-1998)
75. Alan C. Page [ Elected ] (1993-2015)
76. Paul H. Anderson [ Appointed ] (1994-2013)
77. Edward C. Stringer [ Appointed ] (1994-2002)
78. Kathleen A. Blatz [ Appointed ] (J. 1996-1998; C.J. 1998-2006)
79. James H. Gilbert [ Appointed ] (1998-2004)
80. Russell A. Anderson [ Appointed ] (1998-2006; C.J. 2006-2008)
81. Joan Ericksen Lancaster [ Appointed ] (1998-2002)
82. Helen M. Meyer [ Appointed ] (2002-2012)
83. Sam Hanson [ Appointed ] (2002-2008)
84. G. Barry Anderson [ Appointed ] (2004-2024)
85. Lorie Skjerven Gildea [ Appointed ] (2006-2010; C.J. 2010-2023)
86. Christopher J. Dietzen  [ Appointed ] (2008-2016)
87.  Eric J. Magnuson   [ Appointed ] (C.J. 2008-2010)
88. David R. Stras [ Appointed ] (2010-2018)
89. Wilhelmina M. Wright [ Appointed ] (2012-2016)
90. David L. Lillehaug [ Appointed ] (2013-2020)
91. Natalie E. Hudson [ Appointed ] (2015-2023; C.J. 2023-
92. Margaret H. Chutich [ Appointed ] (2016-2024)
93. Anne K. McKeig [ Appointed ] (2016-
94. Paul C. Thissen [ Appointed ] (2018-
95. Gordon Moore
[ Appointed ] (2020-
96. Karl C. Procaccini
[ Appointed ] (2023-
97. Sarah E. Hennesy
[ Appointed ] (2024-
98. Theodora K. Gaïtas
[ Appointed ] (2024-
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