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 2014

Thomas J. Kalitowski

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Thomas J. Kalitowski was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 1987–2014 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Kalitowski authored 340 published opinions for the court (1988–2013), plus 9 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: City of Virginia v. Northland Office Properties Ltd. Partnership (44 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. 103 of these were attributed to Kalitowski 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
1991	City of Virginia v. Northland Office Properties Ltd. Partnership	465 N.W.2d 424	44
2001	Cokley v. City of Otsego	623 N.W.2d 625	42
1992	Kuhn v. Commissioner of Public Safety· Dissent†	488 N.W.2d 838	40
2007	In Re the Welfare of the Children of S.W.	727 N.W.2d 144	36
1992	Mrozka v. Archdiocese of St. Paul & Mpls.	482 N.W.2d 806	36
2004	Gada v. Dedefo	684 N.W.2d 512	35
2008	State v. Lindsey	755 N.W.2d 752	34
2006	Lake Superior Center Authority v. Hammel, Green & Abrahamson, Inc.	715 N.W.2d 458	31
2001	Davies v. West Publishing Co.	622 N.W.2d 836	29
2009	In Re the Marriage of Melius v. Melius	765 N.W.2d 411	28
2009	In Re the Marriage of Dahl v. Dahl	765 N.W.2d 118	28
1999	G.A.W. v. D.M.W.†	596 N.W.2d 284	28
1993	Matter of Trusts Created by Hormel	504 N.W.2d 505	27
1992	Amdahl v. Stonewall Insurance Co.	484 N.W.2d 811	27
1990	Reuter v. City of New Hope	449 N.W.2d 745	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 357 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 J. Kalitowski on?: Thomas J. Kalitowski was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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26 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).