Sarah Wheelock is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a judge of the

Minnesota Court of Appeals The Minnesota Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It began operating on November 1, 1983. Jurisdiction The Court of Appeals has jurisdiction over most appeals from the state trial courts, includ ...

. She was appointed to the court by Governor

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on December 1, 2021, and assumed office on January 10, 2022.

Education

Wheelock earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the

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and a

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from the

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Career

Prior to her appointment as a judge, Wheelock served as legal counsel for the

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) (Dakota: ''Bdemayaṭo Oyate'') is a federally recognized, sovereign Indian tribe of Mdewakanton Dakota people, located southwest of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, within parts of the cities of Prior ...

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. She also worked an appellate judge of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Court of Appeals and an adjunct professor at the

Hamline University School of Law Hamline University School of Law was a private law school affiliated with Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The School of Law was founded in 1972 as the Midwestern School of Law by a group of legal professionals. In 1976, Midwestern ...

. A member of Meskwaki Nation, Wheelock is the first Native American judge to sit on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wheelock, Sarah Living people Minnesota lawyers University of Iowa alumni University of Iowa College of Law alumni Hamline University faculty Native American lawyers Native American judges Year of birth missing (living people)