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History of the Minnesota Judicial Center

Planning process

As part of the planning process, a group of representatives traveled to the New Jersey Judicial Center which was a relatively new building at the time and housed all of the same components Minnesota was hoping to accommodate: Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Court Administration and the Law Library. This gave them an idea of how it could all work together in one building.

Planning

Visit to New Jersey's Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex

Pictured: Peter Popovich, unknown, Jim Whipkey (Deputy Director, Department of Administration, Building & Construction Division) Walter Sobel (Court Consultant, Walter Sobel, FAIA & Associates), Gary Mahaffey (Leonard Parker & Associates), unknown, Marvin Anderson, Sue Dosal, Leonard Parker, Michael Wong (nationally renowned judicial space management consultant from Hawaii)

Group of people in a large marble lobby

Visit to New Jersey's Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex

Pictured: Walter Sobel, Leonard Parker, Jim Whipkey, Marvin Anderson, Gary Mahaffey, Peter Popovich 

group of people standing in a sunny lobby in front of a pillar

Visit to New Jersey's Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex

Pictured: Peter Popovich, Jim Whipkey, Marvin Anderson, Gary Mahaffey, Sue Dosal, unknown, Leonard Parker (peeking around statute)

group of people outside on a paved plaza with a raised structure and statutes

Visit to New Jersey's Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex

Pictured are Sue Dosal and Chief Judge Popovich

a woman and a man standing near life-size bronze judge statutes

Visit to New Jersey's Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex

men in suits around tables arranged in a rectangle

Visit to New Jersey's Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex

Pictured are Chief Judge Peter Popovich, Sue Dosal and Marvin Anderson

Men and women sitting and standing around tables arranged in a rectangle