Kathleen R. Gearin was Chief Judge of the Second Judicial District from 2008 to 2012. On November 8, 2011, she signed the appointment order that placed Referee Rebecca Rossow on the Ramsey County bench.
Why It Matters
Chief Judge Gearin sat one chief-judge era before Chief Judge Grewing. Her tenure covered the four years immediately after Griffis v. Luban’s doctrinal rejection of the Second-District countersignature-bypass standing order, and it covered the appointment that put Rossow — the longest-tenured of the three referees on this case — onto the family docket. Whatever the workflow Rossow inherited in 2011 was, it was inherited from an administration that was on formal notice.
She is a senior judge now, and a neutral / mediator at JAMS. She is not a subject of this litigation. She is on the map because appointment orders are load-bearing when the pattern claim asks who set up the workflow.
The chief who signed the appointment sits on one end of a fifteen-year template.
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