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Appointed by
  
Rudy Perpich

Preceded by
  
Office Created

Preceded by
  
Peter S. Popovich


Succeeded by
  
Paul H. Anderson

Name
  
D.D. Wozniak

Appointed by
  
Rudy Perpich

Role
  
Lawyer

D.D. Wozniak

Died
  
August 17, 2005, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Education
  
University of Minnesota, University of St. Thomas

Succeeded by
  
Thomas J. Kalitowski

Daniel Donald "D.D." Wozniak, Sr. (August 26, 1922 in Silver Lake, Minnesota – August 17, 2005) was a Minnesota lawyer, politician, and judge, who served as Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Wozniak served as a naval aviator during World War II. He graduated with a degree in economics from the University of St. Thomas in 1943, and received his law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1948.

Wozniak was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1951, a position he would hold for 14 years. Described as a "maverick Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party activist," Wozniak would later serve in the foreign service for President Lyndon Johnson.

Wozniak was appointed as one of the first judges on the newly created Minnesota Court of Appeals in 1982. He was later appointed Chief Judge in 1987. Wozniak held the position until 1992, when he resigned due to reaching the state's mandatory retirement age.

Wozniak died in 2005.

References

D.D. Wozniak Wikipedia