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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 2006 / Active

Lorie Skjerven Gildea

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Lorie Skjerven Gildea is a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1961 · age 65
Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gildea authored 231 published opinions for the court (2006–2019), plus 72 dissents and 49 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ramey (347 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. 275 of these were attributed to Gildea 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	State v. Ramey· Concurrence†	721 N.W.2d 294	347
2013	State v. Brooks†	838 N.W.2d 563	216
2011	State v. Diede· Dissent†	795 N.W.2d 836	184
2010	State v. Al-Naseer· Dissent†	788 N.W.2d 469	181
2011	Park Nicollet Clinic v. Hamann†	808 N.W.2d 828	140
2007	State v. Theis	742 N.W.2d 643	138
2014	State of Minnesota v. Jose Arriage Soto, Jr.· Dissent†	855 N.W.2d 303	135
2014	Lyon Financial Services, Incorporated, d/b/a U.S. Bancorp Business Equipment Finance Group v. Illinois Paper and Copier Company†	848 N.W.2d 539	126
2015	State of Minnesota v. William Robert Bernard, Jr.†	859 N.W.2d 762	123
2019	Daniel v. City of Minneapolis· Dissent†	923 N.W.2d 637	117
2014	Laura L. Walsh v. U.S. Bank, N.A.· Concurrence†	851 N.W.2d 598	117
2008	State v. Tscheu	758 N.W.2d 849	113
2006	State v. Caulfield· Dissent†	722 N.W.2d 304	113
2017	State v. Thonesavanh· Concurrence†	904 N.W.2d 432	107
2009	Bahr v. Boise Cascade Corp.	766 N.W.2d 910	107

Showing the 15 most-cited of 352 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 Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Lorie Skjerven Gildea on?: Lorie Skjerven Gildea is a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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20 years on the Minnesota Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).