How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota / Joined 2004 / Served to 2008

Christopher J. Dietzen

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Christopher J. Dietzen was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2004–2008 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dietzen authored 31 published opinions for the court (2005–2008), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Commercial Associates, Inc. v. Work Connection, Inc. (35 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 8 of these were attributed to Dietzen by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2006	Commercial Associates, Inc. v. Work Connection, Inc.	712 N.W.2d 772	35
2007	Dahl v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.	742 N.W.2d 186	31
2008	Northland Temporaries, Inc. v. Turpin	744 N.W.2d 398	22
2007	GRUNDTNER v. University of Minnesota	730 N.W.2d 323	22
2007	Bjerke v. Johnson†	727 N.W.2d 183	19
2007	Leiendecker v. Asian Women United of Minnesota	731 N.W.2d 836	16
2007	Olson v. State	742 N.W.2d 681	15
2005	Sweet v. Commissioner of Human Services	702 N.W.2d 314	14
2006	State v. H.A.†	716 N.W.2d 360	10
2006	Busch v. Model Corp.	708 N.W.2d 546	10
2005	Maschoff v. Leiding	696 N.W.2d 834	10
2006	State v. L.W.J.†	717 N.W.2d 451	9
2007	In Re the Risk Level Determination of J.V.	741 N.W.2d 612	8
2007	C AND R STACY, LLC v. County of Chisago	742 N.W.2d 447	6
2005	All Metro Supply, Inc. v. Warner	707 N.W.2d 1	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 35 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Christopher J. Dietzen on?: Christopher J. Dietzen was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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4 years on the Court of Appeals of Minnesota. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).