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 2008 / Active

Louise D. Bjorkman

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Louise D. Bjorkman is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Education

Luther College

Judicial Record

In our data, Bjorkman authored 36 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: In re the Civil Commitment of Navratil (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. 26 of these were attributed to Bjorkman 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
2011	In re the Civil Commitment of Navratil†	799 N.W.2d 643	19
2010	QBE Insurance Corp. v. Twin Homes of French Ridge Homeowners Ass'n	778 N.W.2d 393	18
2010	301 Clifton Place L.L.C. v. 301 Clifton Place Condominium Ass'n	783 N.W.2d 551	16
2010	State v. Ahmed	782 N.W.2d 253	13
2010	Mountain Peaks Financial Services, Inc. v. Roth-Steffen	778 N.W.2d 380	9
2019	Lund v. Lund†	924 N.W.2d 274	8
2010	Edwards v. HOPKINS PLAZA LTD. PARTNERSHIP	783 N.W.2d 171	8
2010	National City Bank v. Engler	777 N.W.2d 762	8
2009	State v. Stephenson	760 N.W.2d 22	7
2010	State v. HEIGES†	779 N.W.2d 904	6
2017	Linert v. MacDonald†	901 N.W.2d 664	5
2011	Tatro v. University of Minnesota†	800 N.W.2d 811	5
2012	Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. v. Earthsoils, Inc.†	812 N.W.2d 873	4
2019	Fish v. Ramler Trucking, Inc.†	923 N.W.2d 337	3
2017	Otto v. Wright County†	899 N.W.2d 186	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 37 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 Louise D. Bjorkman on?: Louise D. Bjorkman is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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18 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).