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 1982 / Served to 1992

Daniel Donald Wozniak

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Daniel Donald Wozniak was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–1992 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wozniak authored 586 published opinions for the court (1983–1992), plus 25 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Fillmore v. Iowa National Mutual Insurance Co. (54 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. 355 of these were attributed to Wozniak 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
1984	Fillmore v. Iowa National Mutual Insurance Co.†	344 N.W.2d 875	54
1986	Illinois Farmers Insurance Co. v. Judith G.†	379 N.W.2d 638	40
1984	Marriage of Bledsoe v. Bledsoe	344 N.W.2d 892	40
1987	Aberman v. Malden Mills Industries, Inc.	414 N.W.2d 769	37
1984	Cary v. Custom Coach, Inc.	349 N.W.2d 331	33
1984	Marriage of Filkins v. Filkins	347 N.W.2d 526	33
1984	Szczech v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	343 N.W.2d 305	33
1987	Osgood v. Medical, Inc.	415 N.W.2d 896	32
1987	Minnesota Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Department of Commerce†	400 N.W.2d 769	29
1986	Klink v. Ramsey County Ex Rel. Zacharias†	397 N.W.2d 894	29
1985	State v. Aarsvold· Dissent†	376 N.W.2d 518	26
1987	Parker v. O'PHELAN	414 N.W.2d 534	25
1986	In Re State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.†	392 N.W.2d 558	25
1984	Freier v. Independent School District No. 197†	356 N.W.2d 724	24
1984	Marriage of Englund v. Englund	352 N.W.2d 800	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 621 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 Daniel Donald Wozniak on?: Daniel Donald Wozniak was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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10 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).