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 1988 / Served to 2000

Marianne D. Short

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Marianne D. Short was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–2000 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Short authored 212 published opinions for the court (1988–2000), plus 31 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Hunt v. University of Minnesota (70 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. 109 of these were attributed to Short 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
1991	Hunt v. University of Minnesota†	465 N.W.2d 88	70
1992	Sylvester Bros. Development Co. v. Great Central Insurance Co.	480 N.W.2d 368	57
1990	Myers Through Myers v. Price	463 N.W.2d 773	50
1997	D.A.B. v. Brown	570 N.W.2d 168	49
1995	State v. Crims	540 N.W.2d 860	48
1993	In Re the Custody of A.K.H.	502 N.W.2d 790	47
1988	R.A.P. v. B.J.P.†	428 N.W.2d 103	40
1994	Humenansky v. Minnesota Board of Medical Examiners	525 N.W.2d 559	39
1997	Gleason v. Metropolitan Council Transit Operations· Concurrence†	563 N.W.2d 309	38
1991	Marriage of Berenberg v. Berenberg· Dissent†	474 N.W.2d 843	35
1999	Mutual Service Casualty Insurance Co. v. Wilson Township	603 N.W.2d 151	34
1988	Seaway Port Authority of Duluth v. Midland Insurance Co.†	430 N.W.2d 242	32
1994	In Re the Welfare of C.M.G.· Concurrence†	516 N.W.2d 555	31
1990	Swanlund v. Shimano Indus. Corp., Ltd.†	459 N.W.2d 151	28
1991	Andren v. White-Rodgers Co.†	465 N.W.2d 102	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 261 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 was Marianne D. Short on?: Marianne D. Short was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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12 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).