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 1992 / Served to 2005

James C. Harten

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

James C. Harten was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1992–2005 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Education

Northwestern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Harten authored 228 published opinions for the court (1992–2005), plus 4 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Alsides v. Brown Institute, Ltd. (45 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. 52 of these were attributed to Harten 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
1999	Alsides v. Brown Institute, Ltd.	592 N.W.2d 468	45
1997	Benson v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.· Concurrence†	561 N.W.2d 530	26
2003	In Re Thulin	660 N.W.2d 140	25
1993	Odegard v. Finne	500 N.W.2d 140	24
2005	Greuling v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc.	690 N.W.2d 757	23
1992	Marriage of Lutzi v. Lutzi	485 N.W.2d 311	20
1992	Milbank Insurance Co. v. B.L.G.	484 N.W.2d 52	20
2001	State v. Davisson	624 N.W.2d 292	17
1998	State v. Behl	573 N.W.2d 711	17
1997	Femrite v. Abbott Northwestern Hospital	568 N.W.2d 535	17
1998	Deli v. University of Minnesota	578 N.W.2d 779	16
1994	State v. Thornblad	513 N.W.2d 260	16
2003	State v. Fingal†	666 N.W.2d 420	15
1999	Lundgren v. Green	592 N.W.2d 888	15
1999	Shaw v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota	594 N.W.2d 187	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 245 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 James C. Harten on?: James C. Harten 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).