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 2011 / Active

Wilhelmina Wright

Judge, Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Wilhelmina Wright is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Court of Appeals of Minnesota	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wright authored 89 published opinions for the court (2003–2012). Most cited: Duxbury v. Spex Feeds, Inc. (33 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. 13 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
2004	Duxbury v. Spex Feeds, Inc.	681 N.W.2d 380	33
2004	Haase v. Commissioner of Public Safety	679 N.W.2d 743	26
2004	Minnwest Bank Central v. Flagship Properties LLC	689 N.W.2d 295	24
2008	DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP v. Grossman	749 N.W.2d 409	23
2010	State v. Barnslater	786 N.W.2d 646	19
2005	Thomas A. Foster & Associates, Ltd. v. Paulson	699 N.W.2d 1	19
2009	Marriage of Welsh v. Welsh	775 N.W.2d 364	18
2012	State v. Barajas†	817 N.W.2d 204	16
2006	State v. Fleming	724 N.W.2d 537	16
2003	State v. Davis	656 N.W.2d 900	16
2006	Noske v. Friedberg	713 N.W.2d 866	15
2003	City of Barnum v. Sabri	657 N.W.2d 201	15
2008	State v. Meyer	749 N.W.2d 844	14
2012	State v. Wiseman†	816 N.W.2d 689	13
2005	State v. Rannow	703 N.W.2d 575	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 89 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 is Wilhelmina Wright on?: Wilhelmina Wright is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

Sources

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15 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).