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 1990 / Active

Randoplh W. Peterson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Randoplh W. Peterson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1990 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Peterson authored 337 published opinions for the court (1991–2019), plus 8 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Pegel (82 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 Peterson 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
2011	State v. Pegel†	795 N.W.2d 251	82
1997	State v. Modern Recycling, Inc.	558 N.W.2d 770	77
1994	Ullom v. Independent School District No. 112	515 N.W.2d 615	37
2001	Blatz v. Allina Health System	622 N.W.2d 376	35
2005	State v. McGrath	706 N.W.2d 532	25
1991	In Re the Marriage of Richards	472 N.W.2d 162	25
1993	Marriage of Anderson v. Archer	510 N.W.2d 1	24
2004	State v. Plantin	682 N.W.2d 653	20
1994	State Bank of Cokato v. Ziehwein	510 N.W.2d 268	19
2011	Dourney v. CMAK Corp.†	796 N.W.2d 537	18
2004	State v. Conger	687 N.W.2d 639	18
1991	Johnson v. Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric· Dissent†	469 N.W.2d 517	18
2009	State v. Olson	765 N.W.2d 662	17
1994	Neitzel v. County of Redwood	521 N.W.2d 73	17
1993	Spitzak v. Hylands, Ltd.	500 N.W.2d 154	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 346 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 Randoplh W. Peterson on?: Randoplh W. Peterson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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36 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).