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 1987 / Active

Harold Schultz

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Harold Schultz is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1987 · 39 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Schultz authored 42 published opinions for the court (1988–1999). Most cited: Wagener v. McDonald (34 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. 12 of these were attributed to Schultz 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	Wagener v. McDonald	509 N.W.2d 188	34
1991	Michaelson v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.	474 N.W.2d 174	34
1999	State v. Linville†	598 N.W.2d 1	18
1988	Becker v. First American State Bank of Redwood Falls	420 N.W.2d 239	14
1997	Trisko v. City of Waite Park	566 N.W.2d 349	13
1993	Errico v. Southland Corp.	509 N.W.2d 585	13
1990	State v. Lozar	458 N.W.2d 434	12
1993	State v. Harrington	504 N.W.2d 500	11
1989	Clapper v. Budget Oil Co.	437 N.W.2d 722	11
1997	City of Minneapolis v. Police Officers' Federation of Minneapolis	566 N.W.2d 83	10
1988	Black v. NuAire, Inc.	426 N.W.2d 203	9
1990	Lecy v. Sage Co.	460 N.W.2d 102	8
1990	City of Willmar Municipal Utilities Commission v. Kandiyohi Cooperative Electric Power Ass'n	452 N.W.2d 699	7
1988	Ebenhoh v. Production Credit Ass'n†	426 N.W.2d 490	6
1998	State v. Hanson	583 N.W.2d 4	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 42 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 is Harold Schultz on?: Harold Schultz is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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39 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).