Minnesota Judicial Branch History

Ceremony held November 4, 1996 at the Landmark Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Marvin Anderson, Chief Justice A.M. ("Sandy") Keith, Sheryl Ramstad Hvass, Judge Isabel Gomez, former Chief Justice Robert ("Bob") Sheran, Governor Arne Carlson, Associate Justice Kathleen Blatz.

Investiture ceremony : Chief Justice Natalie E. Hudson, Associate Justice Karl C. Procaccini, Minnesota Supreme Court
Ceremony held November 27, 2023 at the Minnesota Historical Society in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Speakers: Timothy Droske (Supreme Court Commissioner), Associate Justice Anne McKeig, Sounds of Blackness, the Reverend Frenchye Magee, Associate Justice G. Barry Anderson, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, Governor Tim Walz, Judge David R. Stras (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit), Kobie Hudson, Vanne Owens Hayes, Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright (U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota), Chief Justice Natalie E. Hudson, Sr. Judge Michael J. Davis (U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota), former Associate Justice David Lillehaug, Associate Justice Karl C. Procaccini, Paul Floyd (president of the Minnesota State Bar Association).

Investiture ceremony : Associate Justice David L. Lillehaug, Minnesota Supreme Court
Minnesota Supreme Court investiture ceremony for Associate Justice David L. Lillehaug
Ceremony held June 28, 2013 at the Landmark Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Speakers: Rita Coyle DeMeules (Commissioner of the Minnesota Supreme Court), Kara Lillehaug, Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea, Robert Enger (president of the Minnesota State Bar Association), Tina Smith (chief of staff to Governor Mark Dayton and Lieutenant Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon), former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Charles N. Nauen, Associate Justice David L. Lillehaug.

Ceremony held January 4, 1993 in the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, College of St. Catherine, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Participant Speakers: Fred Grittner, Chief Justice A.M. Keith, Tom Kayser, Jerry W. Blackwell, Angela Tucker, Georgianna Page, Professor Gerald Torres, Judge Damon J. Keith, Associate Justice Alan Page.

Investiture ceremony : Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea, Associate Justice David R. Stras, Minnesota Supreme Court
Ceremony held July 12, 2010 at the Landmark Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Speakers: Richard Slowes (commissioner of the Supreme Court), Gretchen Retka, Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin (2nd Judicial District), Terry Votel (president of the Minnesota State Bar Association), Governor Tim Pawlenty, former Chief Justice Russell A. Anderson, Associate Justice Alan Page, Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea, David Whitman (dean of the University of Minnesota Law School), U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice David R. Stras.

Plan pages from the Design Development Document and the Minnesota Judicial Center Picture Book prepared by The Leonard Parker Associates Architects

Dedication of the Minnesota Judicial Center at the completion of its construction.

Panel discussion with four Chief Justices, Eric Magnuson, Kathleen Blatz, Lorie Gildea and Natalie Hudson hosted by Court of Appeals Judge Jon Schmidt.

Photograph of the Mechanic Arts High School drinking fountain which was installed in the Minnesota Judicial Center, just outside the State Law Library, to commemorate the school which formerly occupied the land.