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 2006 / Active

Kevin G. Ross

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Kevin G. Ross is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 2006. They previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
2006	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ross authored 127 published opinions for the court (2006–2019), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Skarhus v. Davanni's Inc. (169 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. 85 of these were attributed to Ross 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
2006	Skarhus v. Davanni's Inc.	721 N.W.2d 340	169
2010	Dillon v. State	781 N.W.2d 588	43
2012	Stassen v. Lone Mountain Truck Leasing, LLC†	814 N.W.2d 25	38
2008	Thomas B. Olson & Associates, P.A. v. Leffert, Jay & Polglaze, P.A.	756 N.W.2d 907	36
2012	State v. Peter†	825 N.W.2d 126	35
2014	Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Hanson†	841 N.W.2d 161	28
2008	Peterson v. Johnson	755 N.W.2d 758	26
2007	In Re the Welfare of the Child of T.D.	731 N.W.2d 548	24
2015	State of Minnesota v. Todd Eugene Trahan· Dissent†	870 N.W.2d 396	23
2009	Yath v. Fairview Clinics, N. P.†	767 N.W.2d 34	23
2009	Marriage of Hemmingsen v. Hemmingsen	767 N.W.2d 711	19
2017	Staffing Specifix, Inc. v. TempWorks Management Services, Inc.· Concurrence†	896 N.W.2d 115	18
2013	Economy Premier Assurance Co. v. Western National Mutual Insurance Co.†	839 N.W.2d 749	18
2010	Adoption of T.A.M. ex rel. J.M.J. v. L.A.M.†	791 N.W.2d 573	18
2006	In Re the Welfare of T.L.S.†	713 N.W.2d 877	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 133 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 Kevin G. Ross on?: Kevin G. Ross is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

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20 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).