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 1983 / Served to 2011

Harriet Lansing

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Harriet Lansing was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–2011 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Education

Macalester College

Judicial Record

In our data, Lansing authored 821 published opinions for the court (1983–2011), plus 46 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Sentinel Management Co. v. New Hampshire Insurance Co. (130 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. 424 of these were attributed to Lansing 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
1997	Sentinel Management Co. v. New Hampshire Insurance Co.	563 N.W.2d 296	130
1991	Black v. Snyder	471 N.W.2d 715	56
1992	State Ex Rel. Humphrey v. Alpine Air Products, Inc.	490 N.W.2d 888	48
1987	Phipps v. Clark Oil & Refining Corp.†	396 N.W.2d 588	47
1983	Holtz v. Commissioner of Public Safety	340 N.W.2d 363	42
2001	In RE MARRIAGE OF FITZGERALD v. Fitzgerald	629 N.W.2d 115	41
1997	Gleason v. Metropolitan Council Transit Operations	563 N.W.2d 309	38
1990	McIntire v. State	458 N.W.2d 714	36
2009	Williams v. State	760 N.W.2d 8	34
2004	State v. Wright†	686 N.W.2d 295	34
1986	Jadwin v. Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co.†	390 N.W.2d 437	34
2005	Drewitz v. Motorwerks, Inc.	706 N.W.2d 773	31
2000	Berreman v. West Publishing Co.†	615 N.W.2d 362	30
1984	Chapman v. Chapman†	352 N.W.2d 437	30
1984	State v. Corbin	343 N.W.2d 874	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 893 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 Harriet Lansing on?: Harriet Lansing was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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27 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).