Appointed By: Judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
The Hon. David T. Schultz is a magistrate on the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. He was appointed to the bench by the judges of the District of Minnesota on February 7, 2017.
Prior to his appointment, Schultz was a partner in the Litigation Group at Maslon. He worked in that capacity for eleven years, representing clients in product liability, healthcare, commercial, intellectual property, and civil and criminal fraud cases. Schultz tried cases to verdict in both state and federal courts and developed an active appellate practice.
Schultz earned a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College in 1981. He then completed a J.D. at Stanford Law School in 1985. He was licensed to practice in Minnesota (1985) and Wisconsin (2000). He is also certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and a Civil Trial Specialist by the Minnesota State Bar Association.
His memberships have included the Innocence Project of Minnesota. He has been involved with the American Bar Association’s Central and Eastern European Law Institute, and he has taught trial advocacy at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, legal writing at the University of Minnesota Law School, and constitutional law at Carleton College.
He is a recipient of the Child Advocacy Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (2013).
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