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 1998 / Served to 2004

G Barry Anderson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

G Barry Anderson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2004 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 110 published opinions for the court (1998–2004), plus 4 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: General Mills, Inc. v. Gold Medal Insurance Co. (118 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. 30 of these were attributed to Anderson 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
2001	General Mills, Inc. v. Gold Medal Insurance Co.	622 N.W.2d 147	118
2001	Flynn v. American Home Products Corp.	627 N.W.2d 342	35
2004	State v. Ross	676 N.W.2d 301	34
2001	Gunderson v. Alliance of Computer Professionals, Inc.	628 N.W.2d 173	34
2001	Marriage of Prahl v. Prahl	627 N.W.2d 698	29
2000	State v. Smith	619 N.W.2d 766	26
2001	Bebo v. Delander	632 N.W.2d 732	25
2001	CUP Foods, Inc. v. City of Minneapolis	633 N.W.2d 557	23
2001	State v. Marchbanks	632 N.W.2d 725	21
2000	Marriage of Toughill v. Toughill	609 N.W.2d 634	19
2001	Beehner v. Cragun Corp.	636 N.W.2d 821	18
2001	Fear v. Independent School District 911	634 N.W.2d 204	18
2002	State v. Mellett	642 N.W.2d 779	17
2001	Citizens for a Safe Grant v. Lone Oak Sportsmen's Club, Inc.· Concurrence†	624 N.W.2d 796	16
2004	Maudsley v. Pederson	676 N.W.2d 8	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 120 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 G Barry Anderson on?: G Barry Anderson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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6 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).