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Wilhelmina Marie Wright

Wilhelmina Marie Wright

Minnesota District Court

Born 1964 in Norfolk, VA

FJC ID: 3599

Wilhelmina Marie Wright (born 1964) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She is the only jurist in Minnesota's history to be state district court judge, appellate court judge, and state supreme court justice. She is a former associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, and a judge of the Minnesota District Court, Second Judicial District (Ramsey County). She was elected to a six-year term on the Harvard Board of Overseers in 2022.

Gender
Female
Race
African American

Prior employment

  1. Minnesota Supreme Court
    Associate justice · 2012–2016
  2. Minnesota Court of Appeals
    Judge · 2002–2012
  3. Minnesota District Court, Second Judicial District
  4. District of Minnesota
    District of Minnesota
    Assistant U.S. attorney · 1995–2000
  5. Private practice, Washington, D.C.
    1991–1995
  6. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Appointments

  1. Minnesota District Court
    2016–2024 · Appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)
  2. Supreme Court of Minnesota
  3. Court of Appeals of Minnesota

Education

  1. Yale University
    ba
  2. Harvard University
    jd
  3. Harvard University
    jd · 1989
  4. Harvard Law School
    J.D. · 1989
  5. Yale University
    cum laude · 1986
  6. Yale College
    B.A. · 1986