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 2008 / Active

Heidi S. Schellhas

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Heidi S. Schellhas is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Education

William Mitchell College of Law

Judicial Record

In our data, Schellhas authored 104 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Icenhower v. Total Automotive, Inc. (28 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. 84 of these were attributed to Schellhas 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
2014	Icenhower v. Total Automotive, Inc.†	845 N.W.2d 849	28
2015	In re the Matter of: Jill Marie Newstrand v. Jamison Robert Arend†	869 N.W.2d 681	24
2009	In Re the Welfare of the Child of S.S.W.	767 N.W.2d 723	22
2008	Krueger v. Zeman Construction Co.†	758 N.W.2d 881	20
2009	Marriage of Hemmingsen v. Hemmingsen†	767 N.W.2d 711	19
2015	In the Matter of the WELFARE OF the CHILD OF: D.L.D. and M.E.F., Parents†	865 N.W.2d 315	18
2009	State v. Ali	775 N.W.2d 914	16
2011	State v. Hahn· Concurrence†	799 N.W.2d 25	15
2010	Vasseei v. Schmitty & Sons School Buses Inc.†	793 N.W.2d 747	14
2009	State v. Bjergum	771 N.W.2d 53	13
2008	State v. Abrahamson	758 N.W.2d 332	12
2012	State v. Johnson†	811 N.W.2d 136	11
2016	Marriage of Knapp v. Knapp†	883 N.W.2d 833	10
2012	State v. Irby†	820 N.W.2d 30	10
2012	State v. Ards†	816 N.W.2d 679	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 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 Heidi S. Schellhas on?: Heidi S. Schellhas is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

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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).