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 2014 / Active

Denise D. Reilly

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Denise D. Reilly is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reilly authored 16 published opinions for the court (2014–2019). Most cited: State of Minnesota v. Travis William Mylo Cleary (7 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. 16 of these were attributed to Reilly 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
2016	State of Minnesota v. Travis William Mylo Cleary†	882 N.W.2d 899	7
2017	Johnson v. Johnson†	902 N.W.2d 79	4
2016	State of Minnesota v. S. A. M.†	877 N.W.2d 205	4
2015	State of Minnesota v. Timothy Robert Turner†	864 N.W.2d 204	3
2018	State v. Lopez-Ramos†	913 N.W.2d 695	2
2017	Favors v. Kneisel†	902 N.W.2d 92	2
2017	State v. Carpenter†	893 N.W.2d 380	2
2016	Stephanie Rush, (A16-0249) v. The Westwood Village Partnership, (A16-0249), and Jerry Plummer, (A16-0250) v. Riverside Apartments of St. Cloud Limited Partnership, (A16-0250). A16-249†	887 N.W.2d 701	2
2017	Marriage of Anderson v. Anderson†	897 N.W.2d 828	1
2017	State v. Washington†	894 N.W.2d 168	1
2015	In re the Marriage of: James Allen Ertl v. Diane Martha Ertl†	871 N.W.2d 410	1
2014	State of Minnesota v. Miranda Lynn Jones†	857 N.W.2d 550	1
2019	Aim Dev. (Usa), LLC v. City of Sartell†	925 N.W.2d 255	0
2018	State v. Hill†	918 N.W.2d 237	0
2017	State v. Prigge†	900 N.W.2d 890	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 is Denise D. Reilly on?: Denise D. Reilly is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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12 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).