To place an obituary, please include the information from the obituary checklist below in an email to obits@pioneerpress. com. There is no option to place them through our website at this time. Feel free to contact our obituary desk at 651-228-5263 with any questions. General Information: Your full name, Address (City, State, Zip Code), Phone number, And an alternate phone number (if any) Obituary Specification: Name of Deceased, Obituary Text, A photo in a JPEG or PDF file is preferable, TIF and other files are accepted, we will contact you if there are any issues with the photo. Ad Run dates There is a discount for running more than one day, but this must be scheduled on the first run date to apply. If a photo is used, it must be used for both days for the discount to apply, contact us for more information. Policies: Verification of Death: In order to publish obituaries a name and phone number of funeral home/cremation society is required. We must contact the funeral home/cremation society handling the arrangements during their business hours to verify the death. If the body of the deceased has been donated to the University of Minnesota Anatomy Bequest Program, or a similar program, their phone number is required for verification. Please allow enough time to contact them especially during their limited weekend hours. A death certificate is also acceptable for this purpose but only one of these two options are necessary. Guestbook and Outside Websites: We are not allowed to reference other media sources with a guestbook or an obituary placed elsewhere when placing an obituary in print and online. We may place a website for a funeral home or a family email for contact instead; contact us with any questions regarding this matter. Obituary Process: Once your submission is completed, we will fax or email a proof for review prior to publication in the newspaper. This proof includes price and days the notice is scheduled to appear. Please review the proof carefully. We must be notified of errors or changes before the notice appears in the Pioneer Press based on each day’s deadlines. After publication, we will not be responsible for errors that may occur after final proofing. Online: Changes to an online obituary can be handled through the obituary desk. Call us with further questions. Payment Procedure: Pre-payment is required for all obituary notices prior to publication by the deadline specified below in our deadline schedule. Please call 651-228-5263 with your payment information after you have received the proof and approved its contents. Credit Card: Payment accepted by phone only due to PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations EFT: Check by phone. Please provide your routing number and account number. Rates: The minimum charge is $162 for the first 12 lines. Every line after the first 12 is $12. If the ad is under 12 lines it will be charged the minimum rate of $162. Obituaries including more than 40 lines will receive a 7. 5% discount per line. On a second run date, receive a 20% discount off both the first and second placement. Place three obituaries and the third placement will be free of charge. Each photo published is $125 per day. For example: 2 photos in the paper on 2 days would be 4 photo charges at $500. Deadlines: Please follow deadline times to ensure your obituary is published on the day requested. Hours Deadline (no exceptions) Ad Photos MEMORIAM (NON-OBITUARY) REQUEST Unlike an obituary, Memoriam submissions are remembrances of a loved one who has passed. The rates for a memoriam differ from obituaries. Please call or email us for more memoriam information Please call 651-228-5280 for more information. HOURS: Monday Friday 8: 00AM 5: 00PM (CLOSED WEEKENDS and HOLIDAYS) Please submit your memoriam ad to memoriams@pioneerpress release from the office of Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. The vacancies will occur upon the retirement of Judges Louise Dovre Bjorkman and Randall J. Slieter. One vacancy is currently at large while the other seat is designated for Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District. Earlier this year, a merit selection panel consisting of members of Walz’s administration and at-large members of the Commission on Judicial Selection took applications from candidates and recommended the four finalists. The panel announced its decision Thursday. The news release provides the following biographical information about the four candidates: Beckman is currently chief judge of Minnesota’s Eighth Judicial District. Her seat is chambered in Meeker County. Beckman was previously the Meeker County Attorney and an assistant county attorney in Stearns County. During her time on the bench, Beckman helped start a district-wide treatment court, assisted with starting a child protection specialty court and a district-wide housing court. She serves as a board member on the Board on Judicial Standards and the Minnesota Rules of Evidence Advisory Committee to the Minnesota Supreme Court. Beckman’s community involvement includes being a board member for the Litchfield Area Mentorship Program and the Meeker County Law Library. Beane is a senior associate general counsel at the University of Minnesota’s Office of General Counsel. She was also previously an associate at the Minneapolis office of Jones Day and at Robbins Kaplan LLP. She was also a law clerk to Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright at the U. S. District Court for the District Court of Minnesota and at the Minnesota Supreme Court. Beane serves as a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure and is also on the board of directors for the Minnesota Lavender Bar Association. Kramer currently serves as solicitor general for Minnesota, defending the constitutionality of state laws and representing Minnesota in state and federal appellate courts. Kramer was previously a partner at Stinson LLP, where she practiced complex commercial litigation. She was previously a law clerk to Judge Helen M. Meyer on the Minnesota Supreme Court. Kramer’s community involvement includes sitting on the boards of the Minnesota State Fair Foundation and the Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society. Rasmusson is assistant chief judge of Minnesota’s Ninth Judicial District. Her seat is chambered in Polk County. During her time as judge she established and served on the White Earth/Mahomen DWI and Drug Courts and the DWI Courts for Polk, Red Lake, and Norman Counties. She was previously a partner at Rust, Stock and Rasmusson P. A. Rasmusson is also chair of the Minnesota Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the General Rules of Practice, chairs the Ninth Judicial District Case Flow Committee and is a member of the Children’s Justice Initiative Committee. Rasmusson has also chaired the RiverView Healthcare Association Board of Directors and the Polk County Developmental Achievement Center.
https://www.twincities.com/2025/11/24/four-candidates-named-for-two-minnesota-court-of-appeals-vacancies/
Four candidates named for two Minnesota Court of Appeals vacancies
