Proctor Journal

A resident of Twig has been appointed to to the Commission on Judicial Selection by

Governor Tim Pawlenty.

John D. Kelly, is a partner with the Duluth law firm of Hanft Fride and has over 30 years

of experience as an attorney.

Kelly replaces Larry Stauber, who resigned to accept an appointment to the Court of

Appeals.

Kelly is a member and past president of the Minnesota State Board of Law Examiners, a

member of the Minnesota and Wisconsin State Bar Associations, International

Association of Defense Counsel, American Board of Trial Advocates, and is a Fellow of

the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has frequently been listed as one of the

“Best Lawyers in America” in an annual review by his peers, a “Super Lawyer” by

Minnesota Law and Politics, and received a “Minnesota Attorney of the Year” award in

2003 by Minnesota Lawyer.

Kelly earned his juris doctorate degree cum laude from the University of Minnesota,

and his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kelly will serve as a Sixth Judicial District attorney member on the Commission on

Judicial Selection to complete a four-year term that expires on January 3, 2011.