Posted on 08/03/2003 7:31:01 AM PDT by Valin
Supreme Court Justice Esther Tomljanovich wanted so much to influence who would get her seat on the state's most powerful court that she stepped down a few months before her term ended in 1998 so the governor could appoint her replacement, rather than leave it to the voters.
Then she had a talk with Gov. Arne Carlson and suggested he choose a trial judge.
Weeks after that conversation, Carlson stood on the lawn of the governor's residence with a string quartet and champagne and named Russell A. Anderson, a 16-year northern Minnesota trial judge, to the Supreme Court. Carlson said recently that he had been considering Anderson before Tomljanovich's suggestion. She was pleased, she said that day: "He certainly was my Number 1 choice."
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