Diane B. Bratvold
Firm Name
Practice Type
- Civil
- Criminal
Primary Circuit
8th Circuit
Full Address
25 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
Saint Paul, MN 55155
Firm Size
124
Appellate Section Size
7
U.S. Supreme Court
Yes
Circuit Admitted To Practice
- 4th Circuit
- 7th Circuit
- 8th Circuit
- 9th Circuit
State Admitted To Practice
MN
Phone
(651) 297-1006
In January 2016, Governor Mark Dayton appointed Diane Bratvold to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Before that, Judge Bratvold served on the trial bench in the Fourth Judicial District, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Judge Bratvold had 27 years of experience as a trial and appellate lawyer in private practice before becoming a judge. She practiced law at Fetterly & Gordon, P.A., Rider Bennett LLP, and Briggs and Morgan, all in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2007, she was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. She serves as a director on the board of the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society and is a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the state appellate rules. She is past chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association Appellate Section Council and past president of the Eighth Circuit Bar Association. She teaches appellate advocacy at the University of St. Thomas Law School. Diane also volunteers in her community by serving on the board of directors for Advocate for Human Rights and working on the foundation board and South Sudan Committee for Zion Lutheran Church in Anoka.
Degrees
B.A., summa cum laude, Macalester College; J.D., cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School.
Practice Focus
Diane's practice was almost exclusively civil appeals, primarily in Minnesota Court of Appeals, Minnesota Supreme Court, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, but also in the Fourth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits. Diane was also frequently consulted or admitted pro hac vice for appellate matters in North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. In addition, she advised on trial matters with regard to possible appellate issues. Substantive areas of law include: contract, tort, constitution, employment, insurance coverage, product liability, ERISA, trade secret, consumer fraud, construction, complex civil procedure including class action litigation.