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 2000 / Served to 2014

Terri J. Stoneburner

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Terri J. Stoneburner was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 2000–2014 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Education

Hanover College

Judicial Record

In our data, Stoneburner authored 136 published opinions for the court (2000–2014), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Carlson v. Sala Architects, Inc. (30 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. 37 of these were attributed to Stoneburner 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
2007	Carlson v. Sala Architects, Inc.	732 N.W.2d 324	30
2004	Marriage of Peterka v. Peterka	675 N.W.2d 353	29
2009	Equity Trust Co. Custodian FBO Heather Eisenmenger Ira v. Cole	766 N.W.2d 334	27
2003	State v. Grillo	661 N.W.2d 641	21
2007	Johnson v. Peterson	734 N.W.2d 275	19
2001	In the Welfare of T.N.Y.†	632 N.W.2d 765	19
2013	State v. Amundson†	828 N.W.2d 747	18
2011	Roemhildt v. Kristall Development, Inc.†	798 N.W.2d 371	17
2010	Schmitz v. RINKE, NOONAN	783 N.W.2d 733	17
2002	Schneider Ex Rel. Schneider v. Erickson	654 N.W.2d 144	17
2004	Rukavina v. Pawlenty	684 N.W.2d 525	15
2001	Bondy v. Allen	635 N.W.2d 244	15
2001	Boatwright v. Budak	625 N.W.2d 483	15
2008	Snyder v. Commissioner of Public Safety	744 N.W.2d 19	14
2004	Schumacher v. Schumacher	676 N.W.2d 685	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 139 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 Terri J. Stoneburner on?: Terri J. Stoneburner was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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14 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).