Roger L. Dell

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Roger L. Dell (July 19, 1897–1966) was an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. He served as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1953 to 1962.

Dell was born in the village of Bird Island, Minnesota. He attended public school in Shakopee, graduating in 1916. That same year, without any post-secondary education, he enrolled at William Mitchell College of Law (then the St. Paul College of Law) and obtained his law degree in 1920. He was admitted to the Minnesota Bar and moved to Fergus Falls. He practiced there with several different law partners until Governor C. Elmer Anderson appointed him to the Minnesota Supreme Court in January 1953. In July of the same year, he was elevated to Chief Justice. Dell left the court in 1962 due to personal reasons.

After his retirement, Dell used his personal wealth to embark upon a "one man urban renewal project" of the business area of Fergus Falls. He died there in 1966.

v t e Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Minnesota

Emmett T. Wilson Gilfillan Ripley McMillan Gilfillan Start Brown S. Wilson Devaney Gallagher Loring Dell Knutson Sheran Amdahl Popovich Keith Blatz Anderson Magnuson Gildea

v t e Minnesota Supreme Court Justices

Territorial (1849–1858)	Goodrich Cooper Meeker Fuller Hayner Chatfield Sherburne Welch R. Nelson Flandrau

State (since 1858)	Flandrau Atwater Emmett T. Wilson McMillan Berry Gilfillan Ripley Young Cornell Mitchell Clark Dickinson Vanderburgh Collins Buck Canty Start C. Brown Lovely Lewis Douglas Jaggard Elliott O'Brien Simpson Bunn P. Brown Holt Hallam Schaller Quinn Dibell S. Wilson Stone Hilton Olsen Loring Devaney Olson H. Peterson H. Gallagher Streissguth Pirsig Youngdahl T. Gallagher Magney Matson W. Christianson F. Gallagher Knutson T. Christianson Dell M. Nelson Murphy Loevinger Otis Rogosheske Sheran C.D. Peterson F. Kelly Todd MacLaughlin Yetka Scott Wahl Amdahl Simonett G. Kelley Coyne Popovich Keith Tomljanovich Gardebring Page P. Anderson Stringer Blatz Gilbert R. Anderson Lancaster Meyer Hanson G.B. Anderson Gildea Dietzen Magnuson Stras Wright Lillehaug

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Name	Dell, Roger L.
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Short description	American judge
Date of birth	July 19, 1897
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Date of death	1966
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