Carol Ronning Kapsner
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Carol Ronning Kapsner is a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. She was first appointed to the court in 1998 by Ed Schafer, a Republican governor, to fill a vacancy. She was then elected in the state's non-partisan judicial elections in 2000 to a ten-year term; her current term expires in 2010.
Legal background
Kapsner received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, studied 17th century English literature at Oxford University, and received a Master of Arts degree in English literature from Indiana University. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado, in 1977.[1]
Career
She started the law firm of Kapsner and Kapsner in Bismarck in 1977 and remained in private practice until 1998. In 1980, she served as president of the Burleigh County Bar Association. She was appointed by the Bar Association to serve on the Judicial Conference from 1988 to 1996. On October 6, 1998, Governor Edward T. Schafer appointed Justice Kapsner to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Herbert L. Meschke.
