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The community is invited to attend the next Rosenmeier Forum titled “The Past, Present and Future of Minnesota Courts” with featured speakers retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Barry Anderson and Tad Jude, retired Tenth Judicial District Court judge. The event will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22 in the Chalberg Theatre, Central Lakes College Brainerd campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Steve Wenzel, Executive Director of the Gordon Rosenmeier Center for State and Local Government said, “We are most pleased that the Rosenmeier Center will feature two outstanding jurists whose background and experience will provide for a most informative and interesting discussion about both the history and the future of Minnesota’s Judiciary and its court system. Justices Barry Anderson and Tad Jude were respected throughout the legal community for their integrity and expertise on the legal issues facing Minnesotans.”
Biographies
Retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Barry Anderson is a 1976 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and a 1979 graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. He was a member of the Minnesota Court of Appeals from August 1998 until his appointment to the Supreme Court. He was sworn in and joined the court on October 13, 2004, and reached the mandatory retirement age for judges in Minnesota, 70, in 2024 and retired from the Court on May 10, after 19 years of service.
Prior to his judicial service, he practiced law in Fairmont and Hutchinson and was a partner in the law firm of Arnold, Anderson & Dove. His civil trial experience includes personal injury and mechanic’s lien litigation and he also served as the Hutchinson city attorney for over a decade.
Justice Anderson’s background includes substantial public service including as a board member and chair of a variety of community organizations including service clubs, task forces and a local public access channel as well as a wide variety of other community activities.
Justice Anderson also served several terms on the Minnesota Judicial Council, the principal administrative body for the Minnesota Judicial Branch.
Justice Anderson also helped organize and served as a member of the Minnesota Citizens Commission for the Preservation of an Impartial Judiciary, which considered issues relating to judicial selection, independence and impartiality.
Former District Judge Tad Jude was elected in 2010 and 2016 to the Tenth Judicial District Court. This court serves Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine, Sherburne, Washington and Wright Counties in Minnesota. Judge Jude presided over thousands of cases primarily in Stillwater.
Prior to being Judge, Jude was elected to the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners, the Minnesota Senate, and the Minnesota House of Representatives. He served as Chair of the full House Judiciary Committee as our current trial bench, Court of Appeals and Minnesota Supreme Court was established. He has been an advocate for keeping elections for Judge on the ballot in Minnesota.
Jude has a long record of community service. He currently serves on the US District Court Judiciary interview committee in Minnesota. as Commander of American Legion Post 303 and as a member of the Board for Action for Children/Zambia.
Jude’s career includes service in the Army Security Agency, several Law Firms, and the Department of Labor and Industry. He was a Board member of Jodi’s Network of Hope, the County Law Library, the Northwest YMCA and the Agricultural Society.
Jude is a graduate of the College of Saint Thomas, Wm Mitchell College of Law and has taken professional courses through the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Jude resides with his wife Jacelyn in Maple Grove.
