| Judge LaJune Thomas Lange will join the Humphrey Institute as a Senior Fellow  The Honorable Judge LaJune Thomas Lange has been named a senior fellow with
the Roy Wilkins
Center for Human Relations and Social Justice. A retired State of Minnesota
trial court judge, Lange is an expert on legal and constitutional standards
for discrimination in state and federal courts. She began her career with the
Hennepin County Public Defender's Office as a trial lawyer until appointed to
the Hennepin County Municipal Court in 1985. She became a district judge when
the Municipal Court was merged with the District Court in 1986 and served on
the District Court Bench until her recent retirement.
Lange is a former co-vice chair of the Minnesota Supreme Court Task Force on
Racial Bias in the Courts and a former member of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Task Force on Gender Fairness in the Courts. She is a founding member of the
Minnesota Minority Lawyers Association and has served on the Minnesota Women's
Lawyers committee, Minnesota Public Interest Research Foundation, the American
Bar Association, National Bar Association, Women Judges Association, the Minnesota
State Bar Association's Board of Governors, and the Minnesota Association of
Black Lawyers. She also is an adjunct professor of civil rights and human rights
at William Mitchell College of Law.
Lange graduated from Augsburg College in 1968 and later received her J.D. from
the University of Minnesota Law School.
July 26, 2007
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