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 / Active

Jill Flaskamp Halbrooks

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Jill Flaskamp Halbrooks is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Halbrooks authored 172 published opinions for the court (1999–2019), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: LaChapelle v. Mitten (53 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. 57 of these were attributed to Halbrooks 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
2000	LaChapelle v. Mitten	607 N.W.2d 151	53
2004	Kush v. Mathison	683 N.W.2d 841	37
2009	In Re the Welfare of the Child of D.L.D.	771 N.W.2d 538	35
2003	Eisenschenk v. Eisenschenk	668 N.W.2d 235	32
2003	State v. Soukup	656 N.W.2d 424	26
1999	Dennis Simmons D.D.S., P.A. v. Modern Aero, Inc.	603 N.W.2d 336	26
2015	State of Minnesota v. Todd Eugene Trahan†	870 N.W.2d 396	23
2006	Mercer v. Andersen	715 N.W.2d 114	23
2002	State v. Stillday	646 N.W.2d 557	23
2002	In Re the Civil Commitment of Ramey	648 N.W.2d 260	21
2007	Wichmann v. Travalia & U.S. Directives, Inc.	729 N.W.2d 23	19
2009	Friend v. Gopher Co., Inc.	771 N.W.2d 33	18
2006	Braend Ex Rel. Minor Children v. Braend	721 N.W.2d 924	18
2005	Urban Ex Rel. Urban v. American Legion Post 184	695 N.W.2d 153	18
2002	Grigsby v. Grigsby	648 N.W.2d 716	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 173 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 Jill Flaskamp Halbrooks on?: Jill Flaskamp Halbrooks is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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28 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).