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 1992 / Served to 1994

Paul H. Anderson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Paul H. Anderson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–1994 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 54 published opinions for the court (1992–1994). Most cited: Matter of Trust Created by Hill (28 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. 2 of these were attributed to Anderson 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
1993	Matter of Trust Created by Hill	499 N.W.2d 475	28
1993	State v. Alt	504 N.W.2d 38	27
1994	Township of Honner v. Redwood County	518 N.W.2d 639	23
1994	Davis v. Commissioner of Public Safety	509 N.W.2d 380	22
1993	Krueger v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	510 N.W.2d 204	20
1993	Dakhue Landfill, Inc. v. Employers Insurance of Wausau	508 N.W.2d 798	14
1993	In Re Leona Carlisle Trust Created Under the Trust Agreement Dated February 9, 1985	498 N.W.2d 260	14
1993	Summit House Co. v. Gershman	502 N.W.2d 422	12
1994	State v. Christiansen	515 N.W.2d 110	11
1994	BD. OF REGENTS OF U OF M v. Reid	522 N.W.2d 344	10
1994	In Re Henry Youth Hockey Ass'n, License No. 02795	511 N.W.2d 452	10
1993	Steeves v. Campbell	508 N.W.2d 817	10
1994	International Financial Services, Inc. v. Franz	515 N.W.2d 379	8
1994	State v. Wetsch	511 N.W.2d 490	8
1993	State v. Laughlin	508 N.W.2d 545	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 54 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 Paul H. Anderson on?: Paul H. Anderson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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2 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).