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 1998

Doris Ohlsen Huspeni

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Doris Ohlsen Huspeni was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–1998 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Huspeni authored 735 published opinions for the court (1984–2005), plus 25 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Marriage of Kreidler v. Kreidler (44 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. 380 of these were attributed to Huspeni 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 Kreidler v. Kreidler	348 N.W.2d 780	44
1985	Johnson Building Co. v. River Bluff Development Co.	374 N.W.2d 187	42
1995	Cochrane v. Tudor Oaks Condominium Project	529 N.W.2d 429	39
1986	Marriage of Clay v. Clay†	397 N.W.2d 571	35
1986	McClelland v. McClelland†	393 N.W.2d 224	30
1996	State v. Kahn†	555 N.W.2d 15	28
1995	Trout Unlimited, Inc. v. Minnesota Department of Agriculture	528 N.W.2d 903	28
1993	St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. National Chiropractic Mutual Insurance Co.	496 N.W.2d 411	26
1993	Drager Ex Rel. Gutzman v. Aluminum Industries Corp.	495 N.W.2d 879	26
1985	McCormick v. Custom Pools, Inc.†	376 N.W.2d 471	26
1986	State v. Hatton	389 N.W.2d 229	25
1986	Hager v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	382 N.W.2d 907	25
1986	Edwards v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.†	399 N.W.2d 95	24
1986	Malecha v. St. Croix Valley Skydiving Club, Inc.†	392 N.W.2d 727	24
1985	Willmar Poultry Co. v. Carus Chemical Co.†	378 N.W.2d 830	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 787 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 Doris Ohlsen Huspeni on?: Doris Ohlsen Huspeni was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

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14 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).