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

Mathhew E. Johnson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Mathhew E. Johnson 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	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 90 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 5 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Porte (69 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. 80 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
2013	State v. Porte†	832 N.W.2d 303	69
2010	State v. M.L.A.· Concurrence†	785 N.W.2d 763	53
2014	Rita Ann Stevens v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	850 N.W.2d 717	50
2014	Washington v. State†	845 N.W.2d 205	30
2017	TCI Business Capital, Inc. v. Five Star American Die Casting, LLC, Brian T. Flynn†	890 N.W.2d 423	28
2009	Yath v. Fairview Clinics, N. P.	767 N.W.2d 34	23
2014	In the Matter of the CIVIL COMMITMENT OF Gary George SPICER†	853 N.W.2d 803	18
2012	State v. Nelson†	812 N.W.2d 184	18
2015	State of Minnesota v. Kevin Trent Johnson†	867 N.W.2d 210	17
2015	State of Minnesota v. David Ray Bennett†	867 N.W.2d 539	16
2011	In re Welfare of J.W.†	807 N.W.2d 441	16
2011	Beaulieu v. Minnesota Department of Human Services†	798 N.W.2d 542	16
2009	State v. Grampre	766 N.W.2d 347	16
2014	Doe 175 ex rel. Doe 175 v. Columbia Heights School District, ISD No. 13†	842 N.W.2d 38	15
2013	In re the Civil Commitment of Moen†	837 N.W.2d 40	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 100 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 Mathhew E. Johnson on?: Mathhew E. Johnson 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).