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Wilhelmina Marie Wright

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota · 2016

Wilhelmina Marie Wright , Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The Senate voted 58–36 on the nomination on Jan 19, 2016 (Nomination Confirmed). Wilhelmina Marie Wright (born 1964) is an American jurist and lawyer. She is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Wright is the first jurist in Minnesota history to have served in all three levels of the state judiciary, as a state district court judge, appellate court judge, and state supreme court justice.

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Senate confirmation votes

  • United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota
    114th Congress · Nomination Confirmed
    58–36 · Jan 19, 2016

Education

  • Yale CollegeB.A., 1986
  • Harvard Law SchoolJ.D., 1989

Career

Law clerk, Hon. Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1989-1991; Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1991-1995; Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Minnesota, 1995-2000; Judge, Minnesota District Court, Second Judicial District, 2000-2002; Judge, Minnesota Court of Appeals, 2002-2012; Associate justice, Minnesota Supreme Court, 2012-2016;

Biography

Wilhelmina Marie Wright (born 1964) is an American jurist and lawyer. She is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Wright is the first jurist in Minnesota history to have served in all three levels of the state judiciary, as a state district court judge, appellate court judge, and state supreme court justice.

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