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The Hennepin County Attorney sets policies and priorities for prosecuting criminal cases, oversees child protection and child support cases, and provides legal advice and representation to county government. The current County Attorney is Mary Moriarty, who was elected in 2022. [41]
McKeig was an assistant attorney for Hennepin County of the child protection division, specializing in Native American child welfare cases, for more than 15 years. [1] McKeig was a family court judge of the Minnesota Fourth District Court in Hennepin County, appointed by Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty in 2008. [4]
Momentum to tackle the child safety issue grew after a Star Tribune investigation into Minnesota's county-based child protection system. The series examined issues with how workers screen ...
She has worked as a union organizer and was a paralegal in the Child Protection Division of the Hennepin County Attorney's Office in Minneapolis. She was a member of the Cottage Grove City Council from 2005 to 2007 and also served as chair of the Cottage Grove Public Safety, Health and Welfare Commission.
Leung, who was re-elected in 1996, 2002 and 2008, presided over a wide variety of subjects, including civil, [9] [10] criminal, [11] child protection and juvenile delinquency cases. On April 30, 2011, Leung was sworn in as a United States magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Susanne C. Sedgwick (June 10, 1931 – April 8, 1988) [1] was a legal aid lawyer and judge from Minnesota. [2] She was the first woman Assistant Hennepin County Attorney, the second woman municipal court judge in Minnesota, the first woman Hennepin County District Court Judge, one of the first judges appointed to the newly created Minnesota Court of Appeals, [3] [4] and a contender for the ...
Blatz served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1979 to 1994. [4] When elected, she was the youngest ever female Minnesota legislator. She was appointed a Hennepin County district court judge in 1994, an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court on November 1, 1996, and Chief Justice on January 29, 1998.
Leaders from Hennepin County, Minneapolis and other local governments are backing efforts by DFL lawmakers to make Minnesota a sanctuary state for immigrants in the U.S. without legal authorization.