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 1983 / Served to 1988

Susanne C. Sedgwick

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Susanne C. Sedgwick was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1988 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sedgwick authored 414 published opinions for the court (1983–1988), plus 19 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Fudenberg v. Molstad (51 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. 319 of these were attributed to Sedgwick 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
1986	Fudenberg v. Molstad†	390 N.W.2d 19	51
1984	Deliduka v. Deliduka†	347 N.W.2d 52	44
1987	Rehabilitation Specialists, Inc. v. Koering†	404 N.W.2d 301	43
1986	State v. Bellotti†	383 N.W.2d 308	43
1984	Letourneau v. Letourneau†	350 N.W.2d 476	41
1984	State v. Olson†	342 N.W.2d 638	40
1984	Tomscak v. Tomscak	352 N.W.2d 464	37
1985	Swagger v. City of Crystal†	379 N.W.2d 183	35
1984	Marriage of Clark v. Clark†	346 N.W.2d 383	32
1985	Marriage of Derence v. Derence	363 N.W.2d 86	29
1984	Hanson v. State	344 N.W.2d 420	28
1985	State v. Hagen†	361 N.W.2d 407	25
1987	Mutual Service Casualty Insurance Co. v. Olson†	402 N.W.2d 621	22
1985	State v. Williams	363 N.W.2d 911	21
1987	Buck v. Schneider†	413 N.W.2d 569	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 435 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 Susanne C. Sedgwick on?: Susanne C. Sedgwick was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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5 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).