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Retiring effective Aug 31. Background: District court judge, 1977-90; revisor of statutes, 1974-77; assistant revisor of statutes, 1957-66. Sandra Gardebrlng Age: 51 Appointed by: By Gov.RudyPerpichin 1991. Reelected 1992. Retiring effective Sept 7.

Background: Former Met Council chairwoman and head of state Human Services Department and Pollution Control Agency during Per-pich administration. oollaction) James Gilbert Age: 51 Appointed by. Carlson in 1997. Background: Chairman of Governor's Commission on Judicial Selection, 1992-1997. Attorney with Meshbesher Spence, 1972-97; managing partner, 1984-92, chief executive officer, 1996-97; Term expires: 2001 black metal $99 atyia use 30 Alan Page Ag52 Elected in 1992.

Wat not appointed. Background: Former Minnesota Vking. University of Minnesota regent, 1989-93, and worked for state attorney general's office, 1985-93. Before that worked for Lindquist Vennum law firm. Term expires 1999 (faces reelection in November) Kathleen Blab Age: 43.

Appointed by: Gov. AmeCarlsoninl997. I Background: Associ- ate justice, 1996-97; Hennepin County Dis- tret judge, 1994-96; I assistant Hennepin County attorney, 1992-93; private attorney, PophamHaik I man, 1984-88; Min- i nesota House 1979- I 94. Term expkec 2001 Russell Anderson Appointed by: Carl-I son this year; will succeed Toml-; janovich. Background: Pok County district judge i since 1982; Beltrami County attorney, I 1978-82; private law I practice in Bemidji, 1976-78; lieutenant i commander in U.S.

Navy Judge Advocate i General's Corps, 1968-76. I Term expires: 2001 Edward Stringer Age: 63 Appointed by: Carlson in 1994. Reelected in 1996. Background: Carlson's chief of staff, 1992-94. General counsel for U.S.

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She's resigning to take a high-profile Job with the University of Minnesota. GARDEBRING from Al Carlson may name successor to her as early as next week "It is a cloistered life. Our job is analytic and research-oriented and cerebral and intellectual," she said in her chambers Friday. "I miss being out in public life, of being in contact with people and being in the problem-solving business. It's just kind of lonesome," she said of life as one of seven members of the state's highest court.

In her new post, Gardebring will earn about $150,000 annually and report directly to university President Mark Yudof. Her current salary is $103,079 a year. Yudof on Friday said she was "virtually the perfect candidate" for the job. He said she got "rave reviews" for her job in managing state agencies under Perpich, has good interpersonal skills and a "tremendous record" on the court. "She seemed to me to have it all," Yudof said.

"She is intimately familiar with Minnesota and the different constituent groups. That's important to me. I'm still a carpetbagger in a way." Up for reelection Gardebring would have had to run for reelection this year, along with Associate Justice Alan Page. "Absent this opportunity, I would be up at the Bar Association meeting, shaking hands or kissing lawyers' babies, or whatever you have to do," she said. In a statement, Gov.

Arne Carlson said he accepted Gardening's resignation "with sadness." He called her "a dedicated, highly regarded member of the Supreme Court. She has long been torn between her love of public policy and the law. She served both well." Said Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz: "She's very hard-working, very bright and cared very much about the law as well as each individual case." The governor is expected to name a replacement as early as next week, said Jackie Renner, his press secretary. With that replacement, who will stand for election in 2000, Carlson will have named six of the court's seven justices. Page, the former Minnesota Viking football star, was elected to the court in 1992, an uncommon way to initially get on the court.

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abuse of the office which has been entrusted to Justice Gardebring if it is solely predicated on her unwillingness to campaign for office." Instead of resigning, he said, "she could simply not file for the office, not campaign, and there would be an open seat for the voters to select a judge." Gardebring said she is resigning partly because Yudof wanted her on the job before January, when her term would expire. But she also follows a trend in which justices have been retiring before their terms end so the governor can appoint a replacement. "The governor makes good appointments," Gardebring said. Tomljanovich resigned last month, and Carlson appointed Russell A. Anderson, of Crook-ston, to the seat, also avoiding an election this November.

The trend is viewed by some as an institutional distrust of voters to pick, initially, who would make the best justices. Once a person is appointed, it's rare that a challenger will unseat the incumbent in a subsequent election. Wersal said there is "an extremely good likelihood" that he will switch his campaign to the only open seat remaining for election in November, that of Justice Page. He also said he may file a seek election to six-year terms. Perpich appointed Gardebring on Jan.

4, 1991, three days before Carlson was sworn in. She had been on the Minnesota Court of Appeals, to which she also was appointed by Perpich. With her appointment to the high court, Minnesota became the first state to have a female majority on its Supreme Court. That gender majority since has lapsed. Today, there are three women on the high court, counting Gardebring, but one of the others, Esther Tomljanovich, also is stepping down at the end of August.

Blatz is the third. After deciding to resign, Gardebring said she has suggested to Carlson that a woman be named to replace her. Diversity, including gender diversity, is important, she said. Otherwise, Blatz might feel isolated on the court, "Snow White and six dwarfs," Gardebring said. "I think it's very important that it be a woman." The challenger Greg Wersal, a St.

Louis Park lawyer, was planning on running against Gardebring in the upcoming election. He said her resignation has the effect of "stealing an election from the people of Minnesota." "The 'early retirement' is an ment of Human Services, chairwoman of the Metropolitan Council and twice as commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. In 1995, Sen. Paul Wellstone, recommended Gardebring for the federal bench. However, Sen.

Rod Grams, objected. Citing opposition by the conservative Grams, Gardebring, considered a liberal, withdrew her candidacy. The post eventually was filled by U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery. In her new job, Gardebring will replace the retiring Tom Swain, who joined the university in 1996 as a public-relations trouble-shooter for former President Nils Hasseimo.

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