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 1984 / Served to 1995

Thomas G. Forsberg

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Thomas G. Forsberg was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–1995 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Forsberg authored 504 published opinions for the court (1984–2003), plus 42 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust v. City of Coon Rapids (60 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. 354 of these were attributed to Forsberg 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
1989	League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust v. City of Coon Rapids	446 N.W.2d 419	60
1988	Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. v. Wasmuth· Concurrence†	432 N.W.2d 495	48
1993	United Fire & Casualty Co. v. Bruggeman	505 N.W.2d 87	40
1990	State v. Crandall	452 N.W.2d 708	40
1989	Stubbs v. North Memorial Medical Center· Concurrence†	448 N.W.2d 78	40
1992	Fabio v. Bellomo	489 N.W.2d 241	38
1992	Haberle v. Buchwald	480 N.W.2d 351	38
1985	Marriage of Wibbens v. Wibbens†	379 N.W.2d 225	30
1992	Norwest Bank Minnesota, N.A. v. Midwestern MacHinery Co.	481 N.W.2d 875	29
1989	Rognlien v. Carter†	443 N.W.2d 217	27
1988	Johnson v. Ramsey County· Concurrence†	424 N.W.2d 800	27
1986	Marriage of Valento v. Valento†	385 N.W.2d 860	27
1986	Justis v. Justis†	384 N.W.2d 885	26
1985	Marriage of Hortis v. Hortis†	367 N.W.2d 633	26
1988	Harris v. Mardan Business Systems, Inc.†	421 N.W.2d 350	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 559 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 Thomas G. Forsberg on?: Thomas G. Forsberg 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).