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

Margaret H. Chutich

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Margaret H. Chutich 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, Chutich authored 25 published opinions for the court (2012–2016), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Rita Ann Stevens v. Commissioner of Public Safety (50 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. 28 of these were attributed to Chutich 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	Rita Ann Stevens v. Commissioner of Public Safety· Concurrence†	850 N.W.2d 717	50
2014	George Reilly, as trustee of the Nathan L. Bentson 1993 Irrevocable Trust v. Michael J. Antonello†	852 N.W.2d 694	13
2012	State v. Castillo-Alvarez†	820 N.W.2d 601	13
2013	State v. Hicks†	837 N.W.2d 51	10
2012	State v. McCauley†	820 N.W.2d 577	10
2014	State v. Miller†	849 N.W.2d 94	9
2014	State of Minnesota v. Jerry Expose, Jr.†	849 N.W.2d 427	7
2013	Axelberg v. Commissioner of Public Safety· Dissent†	831 N.W.2d 682	7
2012	Kolberg-Pioneer, Inc. v. Belgrade Steel Tank Co.†	823 N.W.2d 669	6
2015	In the Matter of: KSTP-TV v. Metro Transit, Below, Metropolitan Council, Relator.†	868 N.W.2d 920	4
2014	In re Reichmann Land & Cattle, LLP· Dissent†	847 N.W.2d 42	4
2013	Constans v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	835 N.W.2d 518	4
2016	Jennifer White, Relator v. University of Minnesota Physicians Corp., Department of Employment and Economic Development†	875 N.W.2d 351	3
2016	State of Minnesota v. Rafael Alfonso Banks†	875 N.W.2d 338	3
2014	State v. Wood†	845 N.W.2d 239	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 Margaret H. Chutich on?: Margaret H. Chutich 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).