Finalists for bench named for 10th District

The Commission on Judicial Selection has recommended four candidates to Gov. Mark Dayton to fill two judicial vacancies in the 10th Judicial District. The finalists are Suzanne Bollman, Amy Brosnahan, Bridgid Dowdal and Mark Schroeder.

The vacancies were created by the retirements of Judge P. Hunter Anderson and Judge Elizabeth Martin.   Anderson’s seat will be chambered in Cambridge in Isanti County and Martin’s in Center City in Chisago County.

Bollman currently serves as an Assistant Sherburne County Attorney. Previously, she was an Assistant Stearns County Attorney, an Assistant Benton County Attorney and an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Saint Cloud. Bollman was a member of the Supreme Court’s Gender Fairness Implementation Committee and is a union negotiator and steward for AFSCME.

 Brosnahan currently serves as the Kanabec County Attorney. Previously,  Brosnahan was the Assistant Kanabec County Attorney and, prior to that, was an attorney at the law firm of Leonard, Street & Deinard, where she practiced intellectual property, products liability and construction litigation. Additionally,  Brosnahan was a founding member of the Methamphetamine Task Force/Substance Abuse Coalition of Kanabec County.

Dowdal is the chief legal counsel for the Office of Inspector General at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. She previously served as Assistant Dean at the William Mitchell College of Law, as partner at the law firm of Dowdal & Dowdal, PLC, as an Assistant United States Attorney and as a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice. Dowdal has been a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society and the Minnesota Women Lawyers Leadership Award Selection Committee.

Schroeder is a shareholder at Briggs and Morgan, P.A., where his practice focuses primarily on civil litigation, including breach of contract, fraud, trade regulation, and consumer finance litigation. Prior to joining Briggs and Morgan in 1985, Schroeder was a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Donald D. Alsop. He is a qualified neutral.

 

Source: http://minnlawyer.com/minnlawyerblog/2013/09/20/finalists-for-bench-named-for-10th-district/

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