Gordon Moore | |
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Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court | |
Assumed office August 3, 2020 | |
Appointed by | Tim Walz |
Preceded by | David Lillehaug |
Judge of the Minnesota Fifth District Court | |
In office March 1, 2012 – August 3, 2020 | |
Appointed by | Mark Dayton |
Preceded by | Jeffrey Flynn |
Succeeded by | Sherry Haley |
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]
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]
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]
Moore was one of four candidates considered by Governor Tim Walz, along with Court of Appeals Judges Diane Bratvold and Jeffrey Bryan, and Chief Deputy Attorney General John Keller. [2] On May 15, 2020, Walz appointed Moore to the Minnesota Supreme Court. He filled the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice David Lillehaug. [6]