Court of Appeals Oral History Project

The Minnesota Court of Appeals Oral History Project was designed to cover a variety of themes and topics. During the wide-ranging interviews, narrators discussed the judges' personal and educational backgrounds , their reasons for choosing the law as a profession, their early goals and work histories, their early careers and mentors, their memories of the founding of the Court of Appeals, establishment of the Court's approach to hearing cases and the guidelines under which they worked, changes and updates in the guidelines, the working relationships between the judges, the relationship between the Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court, the work load of the Court of Appeals, and thoughts about the future of the Court. The unrestricted oral histories are being processed and will be available to researchers through the Minnesota State Law Library, both at the library and in a project-focused website that library staff are now developing. Access to the restricted oral history will be made available when the restriction ends.