How do judges of the Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Minnesota Supreme Court / Joined 2012 / Active

Wilhelmina Wright

Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court

Wilhelmina Wright is a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1964 · age 62
Tenure: Since 2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Minnesota Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wright authored 40 published opinions for the court (2012–2016), plus 11 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State of Minnesota v. Brandon Wayne Riggs (77 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. 58 of these were attributed to Wright 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
2015	State of Minnesota v. Brandon Wayne Riggs†	865 N.W.2d 679	77
2013	Rasmussen v. Two Harbors Fish Co.· Concurrence†	832 N.W.2d 790	72
2013	Chambers v. State· Concurrence†	831 N.W.2d 311	70
2014	State of Minnesota v. Don Antoine Jones†	848 N.W.2d 528	65
2015	State of Minnesota v. Clarence Bruce Beaulieu· Dissent†	859 N.W.2d 275	54
2014	Jacky L. Larson v. The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, CMInformation Specialists, Inc.†	855 N.W.2d 293	53
2014	Citizens State Bank Norwood Young America v. Gordon Brown†	849 N.W.2d 55	51
2013	State v. Munt· Dissent†	831 N.W.2d 569	51
2013	Ruiz v. 1st Fidelity Loan Servicing, LLC†	829 N.W.2d 53	49
2013	Dereje v. State· Dissent†	837 N.W.2d 714	47
2014	Dukowitz v. Hannon Security Services· Dissent†	841 N.W.2d 147	45
2015	State of Minnesota v. Thomas Raymond Struzyk†	869 N.W.2d 280	44
2014	Alice Ann Staab v. Diocese of St. Cloud†	853 N.W.2d 713	39
2013	In re the Welfare of J.J.P.· Concurrence†	831 N.W.2d 260	37
2016	State of Minnesota v. Joshua Lee Myhre· Dissent†	875 N.W.2d 799	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 58 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 Minnesota Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Wilhelmina Wright on?: Wilhelmina Wright is a Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 years on the Minnesota Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).