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 1983 / Served to 1997

Edward J. Parker

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Edward J. Parker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1997 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Parker authored 665 published opinions for the court (1983–2001), plus 26 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Dynamic Air, Inc. v. Bloch (70 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 Parker 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
1993	Dynamic Air, Inc. v. Bloch	502 N.W.2d 796	70
1984	Evans v. Blesi†	345 N.W.2d 775	51
1997	Kellar v. VonHoltum	568 N.W.2d 186	49
1984	Hadrava v. Hadrava†	357 N.W.2d 376	44
1990	Citizens State Bank of Hayfield v. Leth†	450 N.W.2d 923	40
1995	State v. Hanson	532 N.W.2d 598	34
1991	In Re the Welfare of M.S.S.	465 N.W.2d 412	34
1984	Reck v. Reck	346 N.W.2d 675	33
1986	Howard v. Frondell†	387 N.W.2d 205	32
1996	O'Shaughnessy v. Smuckler Corp.	543 N.W.2d 99	29
1991	Stanek v. A.P.I., Inc.	474 N.W.2d 829	28
1988	Johnson v. Ramsey County†	424 N.W.2d 800	27
1991	State v. O'HAGAN	474 N.W.2d 613	26
1985	State v. Aarsvold· Dissent†	376 N.W.2d 518	26
1985	McCormick v. Custom Pools, Inc.· Dissent†	376 N.W.2d 471	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 697 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 Edward J. Parker on?: Edward J. Parker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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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).