Susan Segal, Judge 2019-2020, Chief Judge 2020-2024

Susan Segal served as the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals from 2020-2024

Susan Lee Segal was born in Minneapolis in1954 to parents Martin and Gloria Mae Rodich Segal. Her father was a pathologist and her mother represented district 44B in the Minnesota House from 1983-1992. She has three brothers. Judge Segal attended grade school and high school in Minneapolis and then moved to California to attend the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated with her BA in 1976. She then went to University of Michigan Law School and graduated with honors in 1979.

Judge Segal began working at Gray Plant Mooty, in 1983 and eventually became a partner there. In 1999, she left to start her own law firm, Susan Segal PLLC.

In 2003, she began working as a deputy County Attorney in the Hennepin County Attorney's Office, managing the civil division. In 2008, she was appointed by Mayor R.T. Rybak to be the City Attorney for Minneapolis and was confirmed by the City Council. She held that role until 2019. As City Attorney, she worked on a variety of different types of issues, including stadium negotiations, domestic violence and other misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor cases and managed 65 attorneys.

In November 2019, Governor Tim Walz appointed Judge Segal to the Court of Appeals. She replaced Jill Halbrooks in Seat 7 (5th Congressional District). After only 7 months, she was appointed Chief Judge, replacing Edward Cleary.

Chief Judge Segal reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 on December 31, 2024 and retired from the court.

She married her husband Myron Frans in 1993 and has two sons.