Appointed By: Gov. Mark B. Dayton
Hon. Karen B. Schommer is a judge for the 10th Judicial District Court of Minnesota in Sherburne County. She was appointed to the bench by former Governor Mark Dayton on November 26, 2018, filling the vacancy created by the retirement of the Hon. Gary R. Schurrer (Ret.).
The 10th Judicial District includes Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine, Sherburne, Washington, and Wright Counties.
Prior to her appointment, Schommer was an Assistant United States Attorney and Deputy Criminal Chief of the Major Crimes and Priority Prosecutions Section of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, where she had worked since 1999.
Over the course of her legal career, she also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia and was a former associate at Robinson & McElwee, PLLC.
Schommer received a B.S. in finance from Virginia Tech. She went on to complete a J.D. at the University of Richmond School of Law in 1996.
Schommer served as a member of the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association Board of Directors and was co-chair of the Community Outreach Committee.
She volunteered at Northpoint Elementary and Feed My Starving Children.
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