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 2002 / Served to 2012

David Minge

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

David Minge was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2012 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Minge authored 144 published opinions for the court (2002–2012), plus 5 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Ywswf v. Teleplan Wireless Services, Inc. (61 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. 48 of these were attributed to Minge 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
2007	Ywswf v. Teleplan Wireless Services, Inc.	726 N.W.2d 525	61
2007	Staeheli v. City of St. Paul	732 N.W.2d 298	32
2008	In Re the Welfare of the Children of D.F.	752 N.W.2d 88	30
2003	Williamson v. Prasciunas	661 N.W.2d 645	30
2010	State v. Valentine	787 N.W.2d 630	29
2007	Longbehn v. Schoenrock	727 N.W.2d 153	28
2005	Bolander v. Bolander· Concurrence†	703 N.W.2d 529	27
2012	State v. Gunderson†	812 N.W.2d 156	26
2005	Magnuson v. Commissioner of Public Safety	703 N.W.2d 557	26
2008	State v. Lehman	749 N.W.2d 76	25
2008	State v. Outlaw	748 N.W.2d 349	25
2006	Wenigar v. Johnson	712 N.W.2d 190	23
2007	In Re the Maltreatment & Disqualification of Kleven	736 N.W.2d 707	22
2009	Fontaine v. Steen	759 N.W.2d 672	21
2009	Palladium Holdings, LLC v. Zuni Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-OA1	775 N.W.2d 168	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 162 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 Minge on?: David Minge 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).