List of justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court explained

Following is a list of persons who have served on the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Territorial Supreme Court justices

Justices of the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court.^[1]

Name	Begin	End
	1849	1851
	1849	1853
	1849	1853
‡	1851	1852
^[2]	1851	1852
	1853	1857
	1853	1857
	1853	1858
	1857	1858
	1857	1858

http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/judges.html Chronological List of Justices and Judges of the Minnesota Appellate Courts
Appointed by President Fillmore after U.S. Senate rejected Fuller's appointment, but arrived too late to preside over the court. The news of the rejection did not reach St. Paul until after Fuller had arrived and begun his duties as chief justice.

-Chief Justice †-Elected ‡-Served as Chief Justice, but confirmation rejected by U.S. Senate

Chief justices

Chief Justice	Term
Aaron Goodrich	1849–1851
Jerome Fuller	1851–1852
Henry Z. Hayner	1851–1852
William H. Welch	1853–1858

All justices

Following is a list of all justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Chief Justice terms are in bold.

Method	Began service	Ended service
Appointed	1858	1864
Elected	1858	1864
Elected	1858	1865
Appointed	1864 1865	1865 1869
Elected	1865	1887
Appointed	1869 1875	1870 1894
Elected	1870	1874
Appointed	1864 1874	1874 1875
Appointed	1874	1875
Elected	1875	1881
Appointed	1881	1882
Appointed	1881	1893
Appointed	1881	1900
Elected	1882	1894
Appointed	1887	1904
Elected	1894	1899
Elected	1894	1899
Elected	1895	1913
Appointed	1899 1913	1912 1923
Elected	1900	1905
Elected	1900	1912
Elected	1904	1905
Appointed	1905	1909
Elected	1905	1911
Appointed	1909	1911
Elected	1911	1911
Appointed	1911 1913	1913 1918
Appointed	1912	1915
Appointed	1912	1942
Elected	1913	1923
Appointed	1915	1917
Elected	1917	1928
Appointed	1918	1934
Appointed	1922	1933
Appointed	1923	1942
Appointed	1928	1943
Appointed	1930 1944	1944 1953
Appointed	1930	1936
Appointed	1933	1937
Appointed	1934	1948
Appointed	1936	1950
Appointed	1937	1944
Appointed	1942	1942
Appointed	1942 1944	1942 1944
Elected	1943	1946
Appointed	1943	1953
Elected	1943	1967
Elected	1945	1960
Appointed	1946	1946
Elected	1947	1963
Appointed	1948 1962	1962 1973
Appointed	1950	1955
Appointed	1953 1953	1953 1962
Appointed	1953	1972
Appointed	1955	1972
Appointed	1960	1961
Appointed	1961	1982
Appointed	1962	1980
Appointed	1963 1973	1970 1981
Elected	1967	1986
Appointed	1970	1980
Appointed	1972	1977
Appointed	1972	1985
Appointed	1973	1987
Appointed	1973	1993
Appointed	1977	1994
Appointed	1980	1994
Appointed	1980 1981	1981 1989
Appointed	1981	1990
Appointed	1982	1996
Appointed	1987 1989	1989 1990
Appointed	1989 1990	1990 1998
Appointed	1990	1998
Appointed	1991	1998
Elected	1993	2015
Appointed	1994	2002
Appointed	1994	2013
Appointed	1996 1998	1998 2006
Appointed	1998 2006	2006 2008
Appointed	1998	2002
Appointed	1998	2004
Appointed	2002	2008
Appointed	2002	2012
Appointed	2004	2024
Appointed	2006 2010	2010 2023
Appointed	2008	2010
Appointed	2008	2016
Appointed	2010	2018
Appointed	2012	2016
Appointed	2013	2020
Appointed	2015 2023	2023 Present
Appointed	2016	2024
Appointed	2016	Present
Appointed	2018	Present
Appointed	2020	Present
Appointed	2023	Present
Appointed	2024	Present
Appointed	2024	Present

Chief justices

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Chief Justice	Term
LaFayette Emmett	1858–1865
Thomas Wilson	1865–1869
James Gilfillan	1869–1870
Christopher G. Ripley	1870–1874
Samuel James Renwick McMillan	1874–1875
James Gilfillan	1875–1894
Charles M. Start	1895–1913
Calvin L. Brown	1913–1923
Samuel B. Wilson	1923–1933
John P. Devaney	1933–1937
Henry M. Gallagher	1937–1944
Charles Loring	1944–1953
Roger L. Dell	1953–1962
Oscar Knutson	1962–1973
Robert J. Sheran	1973–1981
Douglas K. Amdahl	1981–1989
Peter S. Popovich	1989–1990
Alexander M. Keith	1990–1998
Kathleen A. Blatz	1998–2006
Russell A. Anderson	2006–2008
Eric J. Magnuson	2008–2010
Lorie Skjerven Gildea	2010–2023
Natalie Hudson	2023–present