Natalie E. Hudson is the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. She assumed office on October 2, 2023. Her current term ends on January 7, 2031. Hudson ran for re-election as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024. Hudson was appointed chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court by Gov. Tim Walz in August 2023, effective October 2, 2023, to succeed Justice Lorie Gildea. She was sworn in on October 2, 2023. Hudson was first appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court by Gov. Mark Dayton on August 18, 2015, and sworn in on November 20, 2015, to fill the vacancy left after Alan Page's retirement. She was subsequently elected to her seat in 2016 in a nonpartisan election for a full six-year term.
