Gordon Moore (judge)
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University of Iowa (JD)
Gordon Moore | |
|---|---|
| Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court | |
| Assumed office August 3, 2020 | |
| Appointed by | Tim Walz |
| Preceded by | David Lillehaug |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 6, 1963 |
| Education | Carleton College (BA) University of Iowa (JD) |
Gordon L. Moore III (born April 6, 1963) is an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He was a judge of the Minnesota Fifth District Court in Nobles County from 2012 to 2020.
Moore grew up in Rochester and graduated from Mayo High School.[1] He lived in Northfield and Mankato before moving to Worthington to raise a family in 1995.[2] He received a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College in 1985 and his Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1988.[3]
Legal career
Moore was an associate attorney with the Worthington law office of Von Holtum, Malters & Shepherd, and served as Worthington's assistant city attorney.[4] Before becoming Nobles County attorney, he served as a special assistant and assistant attorney general under Attorney General of Minnesota Skip Humphrey and was an associate and assistant city attorney in Worthington.[2]
State judicial service
On January 18, 2012, Governor Mark Dayton appointed Moore to the Minnesota Fifth Judicial District Court to the seat vacated by Judge Jeffrey L. Flynn, who retired.[4] He was sworn in on March 1, 2012.[5]
