STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR APPELLATE JUDGES - 2012

Lawyers who argue appeals in Minnesota know that the decisions of our appellate judges matter. The following lawyers are experienced appellate counsel who regularly appear before the Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. They include members of the Appellate Practice Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association, the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the Amicus Curiae Committees of the Minnesota Association for Justice and the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association, attorneys who have been designated Appellate Law Super Lawyers, and attorneys who have been recognized in Appellate Law by The Best Lawyers in America.

We, the undersigned appellate attorneys, join in supporting Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea, Justice G. Barry Anderson, and Justice David R. Stras.
Aggergaard, Stephen P. Asmus, Jason Ayling, Corey J. Baker, John M. Ballentine, James Banker, Paul A. Barton, Lori Basting, Thomas Bateman, Charles B. Bazis, Jeanette Beety, Patricia Behrendt, Louise A. Berens, Barbara Berg, Nancy Bird, Charles A. Bouslog, Jeffrey J. Boyd, Thomas Bradford, Mark R. Bratvold, Diane B. Broman, Stacy A. Bryant, Michael A. Bushnell, Sarah E. Clinefelter, Jeremy Collins, Matthew T. Cunningham, Michael R. Daudelin, Susan A. Davidson, William L. Deach, Jana Aune Debele, Gary A. Dragseth, John A. Erickson, Donald Espel, Larry D. Eyler, Dean C. Finch, Frederick E. Fishbein, Gregg Fluegel, Wil Fox, Edward Fraser, Thomas Fribley, Jack M. Geis, Jerome Girouard, Mark J. Grau, Dean S. Gray, Peter Hallberg, Mark A. Hannah, Paul R. Hansen, Erik Hanson, Samuel L. Hart, William M. Hayek, Benjamin Hennen, Jack Henry, Elizabeth C. Henschel, Ben M. Herr, David F. Hickey, Kevin P. Highly, Damon L. Hunt, Kay Nord Jansen, Jenneane Jerabek, John M. Jones, Bruce Justman, Jeffrey P. Knudson, Scott G. Koller, Peter A. Kramer, Liz Laitinen, Steve Lazar, Raymond Lindquist, Jeff Lloyd, Charles J. Lundberg, Charles E. MacKinnon, Katherine L. Maclin, Alan Magnuson, Eric J. Maier, Charles Marshall, Andrew Martin, James T. Maxim, Allison McBride, Katherine McCarthy, Michael C. McNeil, Donald R. Miller, Justi Rae Moskowitz, Wayne Nilan, Joseph ONeill, Brian B. Pentelovitch, William Z. Peterson, Desyl L. Peterson, Paul D. Potter, David Quinn, Sean Ragatz, Tom Remele, Lewis A. Reuvers, Paul D. Rhode, Susan C. Riethof, Melissa Dosick Ross, Barbara M. Rush, Judith Ryan, James G. Schaffer, Haley N.

Schermer, Judith K. Schmidt, Jonathan Schoenwetter, Charles Schwie, Jessica E. Seaton, Douglas P. Seymour, Julie K. Short, Marianne D. Silver, Alan I. Simonson, James S. Snyder, Richard D. Sobol, Brian L.
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Soule, George Spevacek, Charles Stomski, Jessica Strom, Michael R. Supalla, Daniel Tewksbury, Michael Uhrbom, Gina M. Unger, Jeanne Van Cleve, Gary A. Van Dyck, Sharon Van Oort, Aaron D.

Vedder, James J. Vraa, Paula Wagner, Dale M. Webber, Charles F. Weiner, Michael Westrick, John White, Kenneth R. Wilson, Scott A. Wolpert, Robin M.