LawTalk Ep. 11 - Insights from The Bench: A Panel Discussion with High Court Justices

This episode, Insights from the Bench: A Panel Discussion with High Court Justices, features three Minnesota Law alumni who serve on the highest court in their state who will participate in a moderated discussion on timely and critical judicial topics. The three featured Minnesota Law alumni panelists are: Justice Barry Anderson served on the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 1998 until his appointment to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2004. Prior to serving on the bench he was a partner in the law firm of Arnold, Anderson & Dove, PLLP and served the City of Hutchinson, MN as City Attorney from 1987 to 1998. Justice Natalie Hudson was appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2015. Prior to that, she served on the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Hudson's professional experience also includes serving as a staff attorney with Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, associate attorney at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Hamline University School of Law and an attorney for the City of St. Paul. Until her appointment to the Court of Appeals, she was employed with the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General, primarily in the Criminal Appellate Division. Justice Janine Kern was appointed to the Supreme Court of South Dakota in 2014. Prior to serving on the court, Justice Kern worked in the Attorney General’s Office serving in the appellate division, drug prosecution unit, and as Director of the Litigation Division. She was appointed a Circuit Court Judge in 1996 in the Seventh Judicial Circuit and served 18 years on the trial court bench. The event was moderated by Judge LaJune Lange ’78. Judge Lange began her legal career with the Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office until appointed to the bench. Judge Lange served as a Fourth Judicial District Court Judge in Minnesota handling complex civil and criminal cases until her recent retirement after 21 years on the bench. In her retirement, Judge Lange is Honorary Consul of South Africa in Minnesota; President of the International Leadership Institute; serves as Senior Fellow with the Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs; and is an adjunct faculty member at St. Thomas School of Law. This event was part of the Spring Alumni Week 2021 and was recorded on April 20, 2021. Subscribe to the Minnesota Law podcast feed on SoundCloud, or via your preferred podcast network, for more LawTalk episodes, as well as other podcast content produced by Minnesota Law. Learn more about the University of Minnesota Law School by visiting law.umn.edu and following Minnesota Law on Twitter twitter.com/UofMNLawSchool. Find a transcript of this podcast at: https://z.umn.edu/Ep11Transcript