Margaret Helen Chutich (born June 18, 1958) is an

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lawyer and judge who has served as an associate justice of the

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since 2016, when she was appointed by Governor

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. She previously served as a judge on the

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. Chutich worked in the office of the

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and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. In 2008, she was appointed assistant dean of the

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at the

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. In 2011, Dayton appointed her to the appeals court. Chutich is a graduate of

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, the

, and

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. She is married to

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CEO Penny Wheeler, and is the first openly gay justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court. The couple had one child, Olivia Chutich, who was found dead outside a sorority house at

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on January 22, 2021.

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