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 2002 / Active

Natalie Hudson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Natalie Hudson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hudson authored 161 published opinions for the court (2002–2015), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Peterson v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (47 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. 59 of these were attributed to Hudson 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
2008	Peterson v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.	753 N.W.2d 771	47
2004	State v. Wright	686 N.W.2d 295	34
2004	In Re the Welfare of the Child of W.L.P.	678 N.W.2d 703	33
2003	In re P.T.†	657 N.W.2d 577	30
2004	Jensen v. Duluth Area YMCA	688 N.W.2d 574	28
2005	Bolander v. Bolander	703 N.W.2d 529	27
2012	Vazquez v. State†	822 N.W.2d 313	23
2006	Real Estate Equity Strategies, LLC v. Jones	720 N.W.2d 352	20
2004	State v. Cham	680 N.W.2d 121	18
2005	State v. Robinson	699 N.W.2d 790	17
2010	Nexus v. Swift	785 N.W.2d 771	16
2010	Molde v. CitiMortgage, Inc.	781 N.W.2d 36	16
2014	Arthur Allen Hogenson v. Michael W. Hogenson†	852 N.W.2d 266	15
2011	Marriage of Boland v. Murtha†	800 N.W.2d 179	15
2011	Marriage of Passolt v. Passolt†	804 N.W.2d 18	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 165 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 Natalie Hudson on?: Natalie Hudson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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24 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).