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 1995 / Served to 2011

Edward Toussaint Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Edward Toussaint Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2011 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Toussaint authored 315 published opinions for the court (1995–2011), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Dunham v. Roer (66 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. 22 of these were attributed to Toussaint 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
2006	Dunham v. Roer	708 N.W.2d 552	66
2003	In Re the Termination of the Parental Rights of Tanghe	672 N.W.2d 623	32
1999	In Re Estate of Jobe	590 N.W.2d 162	29
1997	State v. Thoma	569 N.W.2d 205	27
2005	In Re the Welfare of the Children of J.B.	698 N.W.2d 160	25
1999	Zellman Ex Rel. M.Z. v. Independent School District No. 2758	594 N.W.2d 216	25
1998	Marriage of Holmberg v. Holmberg	578 N.W.2d 817	25
2004	TNT Properties, Ltd. v. Tri-Star Developers LLC	677 N.W.2d 94	24
2004	Vargas v. Northwest Area Foundation	673 N.W.2d 200	23
2010	Driscoll v. STANDARD HARDWARE, INC.	785 N.W.2d 805	22
2002	Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission v. Minnesota Twins Partnership	638 N.W.2d 214	21
2005	Chosa Ex Rel. Chosa v. Tagliente	693 N.W.2d 487	20
2010	State v. Ramsay†	789 N.W.2d 513	18
1996	Kowler Associates v. Ross	544 N.W.2d 800	18
2010	State v. Berrios	788 N.W.2d 135	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 317 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 Toussaint Jr. on?: Edward Toussaint Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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16 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).