Education
Anderson graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude and earned a Juris Doctor in 1968 from the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis.
Anderson graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude and earned a Juris Doctor in 1968 from the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis.
He served as Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals from 1992 to 1994. He served as a Volunteers in Service to America (Volunteers In Service to America) attorney from 1968 to 1969 and as a special Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division and Department of Public Safety of the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General from 1970 to 1971. He served on Arne Carlson"s 1990 Minnesota gubernatorial campaign committee.
Anderson was appointed by Governor Arne Carlson to the Minnesota Court of Appeals as Chief Judge, beginning on September 1, 1992.
Two years later, Carlson appointed Anderson to be an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, beginning on July 1, 1994. He is the author of many important decisions, including a leading case on bail, State of Minnesota versus
Wesley Brooks. Anderson retired on May 31, 2013 when he reached the statutory mandatory retirement age for judges in Minnesota.