Paul C. Thissen

Cases in this dataset

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Case volume by filing year

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Recent cases

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Career history

• Minnesota Supreme Court · 2018-05-14 to End not recorded · Governor Mark Dayton

• Harvard University A.B. magna cum laude 1989
• University of Chicago Law School J.D with honors 1992

• Ballard Spahr Law Firm (formerly Lindquist & Vennum), 2010-2018 ·
• Briggs and Morgan Law Firm, 1993-2010 ·
• Chair of the Health and Human Service Committee, 2007-2010 ·
• Democratic House Leader, 2011-2016 ·
• Federal Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Clerking for the Honorable Judge James Loken, 1992-1993 ·
• Minnesota State Public Defenders Office, Appellate Division, 1998-1999 ·
• Minnesota State Representative, 2003-2018 ·
• Speaker of the Minnesota House, 2013-2014 ·

Sources and corrections

• state-mn-roster · 2026-10-07

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