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 R. Rodenberg

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

John R. Rodenberg 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, Rodenberg authored 42 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Johnson (60 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. 44 of these were attributed to Rodenberg 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
2013	State v. Johnson†	831 N.W.2d 917	60
2012	In re the Welfare of the Child of J.K.T.†	814 N.W.2d 76	55
2015	State of Minnesota v. Dominic Jason Allen Sam†	859 N.W.2d 825	24
2013	State v. McCormick†	835 N.W.2d 498	22
2013	Westfield Insurane Co. v. Wensmann, Inc.†	840 N.W.2d 438	14
2013	State v. Dickey†	827 N.W.2d 792	14
2012	Sarber v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	819 N.W.2d 465	12
2015	Robel Belay Kubrom v. State of Minnesota†	863 N.W.2d 88	8
2012	Fain v. Andersen†	816 N.W.2d 696	7
2017	In re the Marriage of: Justin David Shearer v. Mandy Jane Shearer†	891 N.W.2d 72	6
2015	In the Matter of the WELFARE OF: J.T.L., Child†	875 N.W.2d 334	6
2014	Bradley Wayne Foster v. Lucinda Jesson, Commissioner of Human Services†	857 N.W.2d 545	6
2014	Marriage of Gossman v. Gossman· Concurrence†	847 N.W.2d 718	5
2014	State v. Griffin†	846 N.W.2d 93	5
2015	Ferdinand Leo Gams, Jr. v. Steven Ronald Houghton†	869 N.W.2d 60	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 44 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 R. Rodenberg on?: John R. Rodenberg 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).