Lorie Skjerven Gildea

Lorie Skjerven Gildea is currently an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, taking office on January 11, 2006. Previously, she had been appointed a Judge in the Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County since 2005.

Gildea was raised in Plummer, Minnesota, a small town in northwest portion of the state. She received her Bachelor of Arts, with distinction, from the University of Minnesota Morris in 1983, and her Juris Doctor, "magna cum laude", from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1986. After law school she remained in Washington, D.C. and entered private practice with Arent Fox. She returned to Minnesota, where after working briefly as a Special Prosecutor for Minneapolis, she was an associate general counsel for the University of Minnesota. She represented the University system for eleven years, including against scandalized former men's basketball coach Clem Haskins. She served on the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission from 2001 to 2004 under Governors Jesse Ventura and Tim Pawlenty; Gov. Pawlenty appointed her an Associate Justice.

External links and references

* [http://www.courts.state.mn.us/?page=31&ID=30349 Judge Profile: Associate Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea] , State of Minnesota Judicial Branch.
*Philip J. Trobaugh, [http://hennepin.timberlakepublishing.com/article.asp?article=980&paper=1&cat=148 Judge Lorie Skjerven Gildea] , "Hennepin Lawyer", December 22, 2005.