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 2002

Gary L. Crippen

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Gary L. Crippen was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–2002 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Crippen authored 695 published opinions for the court (1984–2004), plus 63 dissents and 44 concurrences. Most cited: Vangsness v. Vangsness (141 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. 415 of these were attributed to Crippen 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
2000	Vangsness v. Vangsness	607 N.W.2d 468	141
1988	Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. v. Wasmuth†	432 N.W.2d 495	48
1984	State v. Curtiss	353 N.W.2d 262	47
2002	State v. Mendoza· Dissent†	638 N.W.2d 480	43
1986	State v. Bellotti· Concurrence†	383 N.W.2d 308	43
1984	Marriage of Kottke v. Kottke†	353 N.W.2d 633	42
1994	Lassen v. First Bank Eden Prairie	514 N.W.2d 831	41
1998	Crosby v. Crosby	587 N.W.2d 292	39
1996	Hunter v. Hartman	545 N.W.2d 699	35
1991	Marriage of Berenberg v. Berenberg	474 N.W.2d 843	35
1995	State v. Hanson· Concurrence†	532 N.W.2d 598	34
1984	Marriage of Rinker v. Rinker	358 N.W.2d 165	34
2001	AMRESCO Residential Mortgage Corp. v. Stange	631 N.W.2d 444	32
1987	In Re the Welfare of M.A.	408 N.W.2d 227	32
1984	Tate v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	356 N.W.2d 766	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 802 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 Gary L. Crippen on?: Gary L. Crippen was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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18 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).