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 1991 / Served to 2002

Roland C. Amundson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Roland C. Amundson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2002 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Amundson authored 168 published opinions for the court (1991–2001), plus 5 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Hanks v. Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. (55 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. 27 of these were attributed to Amundson 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
1992	Hanks v. Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.	493 N.W.2d 302	55
1992	Kuhn v. Commissioner of Public Safety	488 N.W.2d 838	40
1993	Maras v. City of Brainerd	502 N.W.2d 69	33
1994	Giuliani v. Stuart Corp.	512 N.W.2d 589	32
1992	ZumBerge v. Northern States Power Co.	481 N.W.2d 103	30
1996	State v. Kahn	555 N.W.2d 15	28
1991	Schumacher v. Ihrke	469 N.W.2d 329	27
1997	Benson v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.	561 N.W.2d 530	26
1996	Deli v. Hasselmo	542 N.W.2d 649	26
1998	Kohn v. City of Minneapolis Fire Department	583 N.W.2d 7	24
1994	Lommen v. City of East Grand Forks· Dissent†	522 N.W.2d 148	24
1997	Olson v. Moorhead Country Club	568 N.W.2d 871	20
2000	Marriage of Chamberlain v. Chamberlain	615 N.W.2d 405	18
1994	Pacific Equipment & Irrigation, Inc. v. Toro Co.· Concurrence†	519 N.W.2d 911	18
1994	Roe v. Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis· Concurrence†	518 N.W.2d 629	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 178 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 Roland C. Amundson on?: Roland C. Amundson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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11 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).