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

Micelle A. Larkin

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Micelle A. Larkin 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, Larkin authored 68 published opinions for the court (2009–2019). Most cited: State v. M.L.A. (53 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. 49 of these were attributed to Larkin 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
2010	State v. M.L.A.†	785 N.W.2d 763	53
2012	State v. Klamar†	823 N.W.2d 687	47
2014	Phillip Anthony Roberts v. State of Minnesota†	856 N.W.2d 287	44
2012	In re the Welfare of the Children of K.S.F.†	823 N.W.2d 656	31
2013	State v. Cubas†	838 N.W.2d 220	25
2009	Marriage of Maiers v. Maiers	775 N.W.2d 666	18
2011	Glorvigen v. Cirrus Design Corp.†	796 N.W.2d 541	15
2009	Schulz v. Commissioner of Public Safety	760 N.W.2d 331	15
2015	State of Minnesota v. August Latimothy Fleming†	869 N.W.2d 319	14
2010	State v. Yaritz†	791 N.W.2d 138	12
2009	Christian v. Birch†	763 N.W.2d 50	12
2017	Cruz-Guzman v. State†	892 N.W.2d 533	11
2011	Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. v. Nedashkoyskiy†	801 N.W.2d 190	10
2009	State v. Dunson	770 N.W.2d 546	10
2015	Kristin Marie Poeschel v. Commissioner of Public Safety†	871 N.W.2d 39	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 68 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 Micelle A. Larkin on?: Micelle A. Larkin is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

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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).