Jeffrey Bryan

Jeffrey Bryan is an American lawyer from Minnesota who is a Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Jeffrey Bryan
Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals
Assumed office
November 25, 2019
Appointed byTim Walz
Preceded byHeidi Schellhas
Judge of the Second Judicial District of Minnesota
In office
July 11, 2013 – November 25, 2019
Appointed byMark Dayton
Preceded byJ. Thomas Mott
Personal details
EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin (B.A.)
Yale Law School (J.D.)

Education

Bryan earned his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.[1]

Bryan was a judicial clerk for Judge Paul A. Magnuson of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. He later became an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States Attorney's Office, where he prosecuted economic fraud and drug-trafficking conspiracies, and was a civil litigation attorney for Robins Kaplan LLP where he developed a litigation practice emphasizing antitrust law and intellectual property disputes.[1]

State court service

On July 11, 2013, he was appointed as a trial court judge in the Second Judicial District by Governor Mark Dayton to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of J. Thomas Mott.[2]

Minnesota Court of Appeals service

On October 9, 2019, Governor Tim Walz announced the appointment of Bryan to be a Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.[3] He filled the vacancy left by Heidi Schellhas. He serves in an at-large capacity.[1]

Community activities

Bryan is an active member of the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association, and previously served on the Macalester-Groveland Community Council and chaired the Minnesota Minority Recruiting Conference Committee for Twin Cities Diversity in Practice.[2] He also serves on the Minnesota Task Force on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, the Minnesota Supreme Court Rules of Evidence Advisory Committee, and on the board of various community organizations, including the Minnesota Urban Debate League, Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity.[1]

References
  1. "Governor Walz Appoints the Honorable Jeffrey Bryan and Susan Segal to Fill Vacancies on the Minnesota Court of Appeals" (Press release). Office of the Governor. October 9, 2019. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  2. "Jeffrey M. Bryan Appointed to Fill Second Judicial District Vacancy" (Press release). July 11, 2013. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  3. "Minneapolis city attorney, district judge appointed to fill vacancies on Minnesota Court of Appeals". KSTP. October 8, 2019. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
Legal offices
Preceded by
Heidi Schellhas		 Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals
2019–present		 Incumbent


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