Judge Quinn graduated with a B.S. in Applied History from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA in 1986. He received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1989. From 1992 until his appointment to the court in 2018, he was a partner at the Duluth law firm of Falsani, Balmer, Peterson & Quinn, representing injured and disabled people in workers’ compensation, social security disability, long term disability, and personal injury matters.