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Wilhelmina Wright

1964–

United States

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Wilhelmina Marie Wright (born 1964) is an American jurist and lawyer. She is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. Wright is the first jurist in Minnesota history to have served in all three levels of the state judiciary, as a state district court judge, appellate court judge, and state supreme court justice. She then served as an active federal district court judge from 2016 to 2024. Wright was elected to a six-year term on the Harvard Board of Overseers in 2022.

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