Barry Anderson
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G. Barry Anderson is an Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court, a position to which he was appointed in October 2004.
Anderson is a 1976 graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota and a 1979 graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. Anderson was born in Mankato, Minnesota. His background includes service as chairman of the Board of Directors of Hutchinson Community Video Network, two terms as President of Hutchinson Rotary Club and a wide variety of other community activities.
Legal career
Justice Anderson was a member of the Minnesota Court of Appeals from August l998 until his appointment to the Minnesota Supreme Court in October 2004. He previously was a partner in the Minneapolis and Hutchinson law firm of Arnold, Anderson & Dove, PLLP, and had served as City attorney in Hutchinson for over fifteen years. He is also certified by the Minnesota State Bar Association as a civil trial specialist.[1]
Opposition to judicial elections
Anderson spoke out against judicial elections in May 2008, and in favor of bills in the Minnesota legislature to eliminate election of judges, saying, "The problem with waiting is that there was a time when Texas wasn't Texas, Ohio wasn't Ohio, and Wisconsin wasn't Wisconsin," he said. "And what you find in these states, is that once they get into the soup of highly partisan, competitive, expensive judicial elections, they can't get out."[2]
