Alphabetical Index of District Court Judge Biographies
Creation and History of the District Courts
District Court Judges, Counties and Years Served:
1889-1919
1919-1979
1979-Present
District Court Judges Who Later Served as Supreme Court Justices
District Court Judges Who Previously Served in Territorial Court
First Woman District Court Judge
Biographical Sketches of the District Court Judges (chronological order):
Charles F. Templeton
David E. Morgan
William B. McConnell
William S. Lauder
Roderick Rose
Walter H. Winchester
Otto E. Sauter
Leo J. Palda
Alexander G. Burr
William C. Crawford
Frank E. Fisk
Samuel L. Nuchols
Charles J. Fisk
John Cowan
Charles A. Pollock
Frank P. Allen
Samuel L. Glaspell
William L. Nuessle
William J. Kneeshaw
Evan B. Goss
James M. Hanley
Charles M. Cooley
Charles W. Buttz
Albert T. Cole
Edward T. Burke
James A. Coffey
Kalita E. Leighton
Frank T. Lembke
M. J. Englert
Frederick J. Graham
Daniel B. Holt
Peter G. Swenson
Gudmundur Grimson
George M. McKenna
Fred Jansonius
Ray Garfield McFarland
George H. Moellring
John C. Lowe
Arthur Jackson Gronna
Harry L. Berry
Harvey J. Miller
John C. Pollock
Herbert C. DePuy
Charles E. Wolfe
Eugene F. Coyne
William A. Jacobsen
Thomas H. Pugh
Olger B. Burtness
John Sad
Albert Lundberg
Harold B. Nelson
Asmundur Benson
John J. Kehoe
Obert C. Teigen
Albert G. Porter
William H. Hutchinson
Harry E. Rittgers
George Thom A. Jr.
Eugene A. Burdick
Leo C. Broderick
Mark H. Amundson
Joris O. Wigen
Harold P. Thomson
Winfield R. Schell
Philip R. Bangs
Roy K. Redetzke
Ray R. Friederich
Douglas B. Heen
Clifford Schneller
Wilfred C. Lynch
Martin C. Fredricks
Emil A. Giese
Albert C. Bakken
Hamilton E. Englert
Harold M. Hager
Ralph B. Maxwell
Adam Gefreh
Clifford Jansonius
Larry M. Hatch
Wallace E. Warner
Alfred A. Thompson
William M. Beede
Roy A. Ilvedson
George A. McGee
Charles L. Foster
Clemens F. Kelsch
Roland A. Heringer
Francis E. Foughty
Glenn K. Swanson
Eugene Coyne
Norbert J. Muggli
James H. O'Keefe
Everett Nels Olson
Benny A. Graff
John O. Garaas
Robert L. Eckert
William F. Hodny
Lyle G. Stuart
Kirk Smith
Gerald G. Glaser
Wallace D. Berning
William A. Neumann
Joel D. Medd
Norman J. Backes
Michael O. McGuire
Dennis A. Schneider
Lawrence A. Leclerc
Jon R. Kerian
John T. Paulson
Bert L. Wilson
Gordon O. Hoberg
Maurice R. Hunke
Allan Schmalenberger
Donald L. Jorgensen
Cynthia A. Rothe-Seeger
Lee A. Christofferson
Bruce E. Bohlman
Lawrence E. Jahnke
Gary A. Holum
Gerald H. Rustad
James A. Wright
Warren H. Albrecht, Jr.
David W. Nelson
Lester S. Ketterling
Debbie G. Kleven
James M. Bekken
Keith Wolberg
Glenn Dill III
Donovan J. Foughty
Burt L. Riskedahl
Ronald E. Goodman
Robert W. Holte
Thomas K. Metelmann
Frank L. Racek
Bruce B. Haskell
James Vukelic
Thomas J. Schneider
Mikal Simonson
M. Richard Geiger
Georgia Dawson
Richard W. Grosz
Ronald L. Hilden
William W. McLees
John C. McClintock Jr.
Ralph R. Erickson
Randall L. Hoffman
Gail Hagerty
Zane Anderson
Laurie A. Fontaine
Robert O. Wefald
Karen Kosanda Braaten
John E. Greenwood
Bruce A. Romanick
John C. Irby
Douglas L. Mattson
Wade L. Webb
Sonna Marie Anderson
Douglas R. Herman
Sonja Clapp
Gary Lee
Steven Marquart
Steven McCullough
Michael Sturdevant
David Reich
Daniel Narum
William Herauf
Richard L. Hagar
Wickham Corwin
H. Patrick Weir
Thomas E. Merrick
Todd L. Cresap
Lisa K. Fair McEvers
James D. Hovey
Cynthia Feland
Joshua Rustad
Jay Schmitz