It was named for Clarence R. Magney, a former mayor of Duluth and judge on the Minnesota Supreme Court, who was instrumental in getting 11 state parks and scenic waysides established along the North Shore.
The most recent election to an open seat on the court was in 1992, when former Minnesota Vikings player Alan Page was elected.
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The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal IV, were Charles B. Sears (presiding judge), former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals; William C. Christianson, former Minnesota Supreme Court justice; Frank N. Richman, former Supreme Court of Indiana justice; and Richard D. Dixon, former North Carolina Superior Court judge, as an alternate judge.
He settled in Winona, Minnesota and read law in the offices of Lewis & Simpson and William Mitchell, a former justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, before being admitted to the bar at Rochester in October 1862.
G. Barry Anderson (born 1954), Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
In 1980, when Little Falls native Walter Rogosheske retired from the Minnesota Supreme Court, Governor Al Quie appointed Simonett to fill the vacancy.
Alan Page, an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
In 2010 Governor Pawlenty appointed her the new Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, replacing Eric J. Magnuson.
The firm is exceptional in the history of Minnesota law and politics because it produced a federal judge (Magnuson), a Minnesota governor (Harold LeVander), a United States Senator (David Durenberger), and a Minnesota Supreme Court justice (Paul H. Anderson).
Thomas F. Gallagher (1897–1985), Minnesota Supreme Court judge, 1943–1967