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 1987 / Served to 2005

Robert H. Schumacher

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Robert H. Schumacher was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2005 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Schumacher authored 365 published opinions for the court (1988–2005), plus 40 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Manning (48 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. 143 of these were attributed to Schumacher 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
1995	State v. Manning	532 N.W.2d 244	48
1990	Nitz v. Nitz	456 N.W.2d 450	44
2003	Rooney v. Rooney	669 N.W.2d 362	34
2001	Dokman v. County of Hennepin	637 N.W.2d 286	34
2001	Braith v. Fischer	632 N.W.2d 716	34
1995	Geraci v. Eckankar	526 N.W.2d 391	31
1997	State v. Thoma†	569 N.W.2d 205	27
2004	Mon-Ray, Inc. v. Granite Re, Inc.	677 N.W.2d 434	26
1993	Drager Ex Rel. Gutzman v. Aluminum Industries Corp.· Dissent†	495 N.W.2d 879	26
2001	Myers v. Hearth Technologies, Inc.	621 N.W.2d 787	25
2001	State v. Trei	624 N.W.2d 595	24
1995	Lilly v. City of Minneapolis· Dissent†	527 N.W.2d 107	23
2005	State v. Scacchetti	690 N.W.2d 393	22
2002	Alpha Systems Integration, Inc. v. Silicon Graphics, Inc.	646 N.W.2d 904	22
2002	Fraser v. Fraser	642 N.W.2d 34	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 410 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 Robert H. Schumacher on?: Robert H. Schumacher was 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).