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 2012 / Active

John P. Smith

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

John P. Smith is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Smith authored 27 published opinions for the court (2013–2017), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Larson v. Jesson (19 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. 29 of these were attributed to Smith 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	Larson v. Jesson†	847 N.W.2d 531	19
2015	Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation v. Gary E. Mitchell, John Doe†	862 N.W.2d 67	18
2017	In the MATTER OF the Application of J.M.M. O/B/O Minors for a Change of Name†	890 N.W.2d 750	16
2015	State of Minnesota v. Ryan Mark Thompson†	873 N.W.2d 873	16
2013	Hunter v. Anchor Bank, N.A.· Concurrence†	842 N.W.2d 10	13
2014	State of Minnesota v. Roosevelt Hunter†	857 N.W.2d 537	12
2016	State of Minnesota v. Stuart Donald Luhm· Dissent†	880 N.W.2d 606	8
2016	State of Minnesota v. Final Exit Network, Inc.†	889 N.W.2d 296	5
2014	In re the Guardianship of O'Brien†	847 N.W.2d 710	5
2017	In re the Marriage of: Michelle Beth Kremer v. Robbie Michael Kremer†	889 N.W.2d 41	4
2015	Scott Rilley v. MoneyMutual, LLC†	863 N.W.2d 789	4
2014	In re Reichmann Land & Cattle, LLP†	847 N.W.2d 42	4
2013	State v. Klug†	839 N.W.2d 723	4
2015	Cityscapes Development, LLC v. Larry Scheffler†	866 N.W.2d 66	3
2014	Harvey Ray Dupey v. State of Minnesota†	855 N.W.2d 544	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 29 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 John P. Smith on?: John P. Smith is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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14 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).