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 1984 / Served to 1987

David R. Leslie

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

David R. Leslie was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–1987 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Leslie authored 367 published opinions for the court (1984–1990), plus 20 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Marriage of Dahlberg v. Dahlberg (29 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. 275 of these were attributed to Leslie 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	Marriage of Dahlberg v. Dahlberg†	358 N.W.2d 76	29
1984	Sorensen v. Coast-To-Coast Stores (Central Organization), Inc.†	353 N.W.2d 666	29
1984	Bethesda Lutheran Church v. Twin City Construction Co.†	356 N.W.2d 344	28
1985	Quill v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.†	361 N.W.2d 438	27
1986	Dumas v. Kessler & Maguire Funeral Home, Inc.	380 N.W.2d 544	26
1985	State v. Aarsvold†	376 N.W.2d 518	26
1988	St. Croix Printing Equipment, Inc. v. Rockwell International Corp.	428 N.W.2d 877	24
1987	Sand v. School Service Employees Union, Local 284†	402 N.W.2d 183	24
1985	Marriage of Frederiksen v. Frederiksen	368 N.W.2d 769	23
1985	Sandstrom v. Douglas MacHine Corp.	372 N.W.2d 89	22
1985	Marriage of Otte v. Otte†	368 N.W.2d 293	22
1984	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Budget Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc.†	359 N.W.2d 673	22
1984	Schafer v. Commissioner of Public Safety	348 N.W.2d 365	21
1986	Dean v. Allied Aviation Fueling Co.	381 N.W.2d 80	20
1986	State v. Ford	381 N.W.2d 30	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 391 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 David R. Leslie on?: David R. Leslie was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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3 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).