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 2011

Gordon W. Shumaker

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Gordon W. Shumaker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2011 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Shumaker authored 174 published opinions for the court (1998–2011), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wembley (47 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. 24 of these were attributed to Shumaker 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	State v. Wembley	712 N.W.2d 783	47
2007	Szarzynski v. Szarzynski	732 N.W.2d 285	44
2007	Marriage of Thompson v. Thompson	739 N.W.2d 424	29
2007	Brodsky v. Brodsky	733 N.W.2d 471	27
2000	State v. Cook· Dissent†	610 N.W.2d 664	25
1998	Marriage of Holmberg v. Holmberg· Concurrence†	578 N.W.2d 817	25
2000	Rhee v. Golden Home Builders, Inc.	617 N.W.2d 618	24
2008	State v. Rucker	752 N.W.2d 538	21
2007	Marriage of Kampf v. Kampf	732 N.W.2d 630	21
2003	State v. Miller	659 N.W.2d 275	21
2000	Smith v. Woodwind Homes, Inc.	605 N.W.2d 418	18
2001	State v. Misquadace	629 N.W.2d 487	17
1999	State v. Coauette· Concurrence†	601 N.W.2d 443	15
2010	Christopher v. Windom Area School Board	781 N.W.2d 904	14
2009	State v. McCurry	770 N.W.2d 553	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 181 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 Gordon W. Shumaker on?: Gordon W. Shumaker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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13 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).