- Lorie Skjerven Gildea
Lorie Skjerven Gildea is currently an Associate Justice of the
Minnesota Supreme Court , taking office onJanuary 11 ,2006 . Previously, she had been appointed a Judge in the Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County since 2005.Gildea was raised in
Plummer, Minnesota , a small town in northwest portion of the state. She received herBachelor of Arts , with distinction, from theUniversity of Minnesota Morris in 1983, and herJuris Doctor , "magna cum laude ", from theGeorgetown University Law Center in 1986. After law school she remained inWashington, D.C. and entered private practice withArent Fox . She returned to Minnesota, where after working briefly as a Special Prosecutor forMinneapolis , she was an associate general counsel for theUniversity of Minnesota . She represented the University system for eleven years, including against scandalized former men's basketball coachClem Haskins . She served on the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission from 2001 to 2004 under GovernorsJesse Ventura andTim Pawlenty ; Gov. Pawlenty appointed her an Associate Justice.External links and references
* [http://www.courts.state.mn.us/?page=31&ID=30349 Judge Profile: Associate Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea] , State of Minnesota Judicial Branch.
*Philip J. Trobaugh, [http://hennepin.timberlakepublishing.com/article.asp?article=980&paper=1&cat=148 Judge Lorie Skjerven Gildea] , "Hennepin Lawyer", December 22, 2005.
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