Victoria Elsmore, a Ramsey County court referee in the family division, has been appointed by Gov. Tim Walz to fill the Second Judicial District seat left open with the February death of Patrick Diamond.
Elsmore has been a court referee for the Second Judicial District, which encompasses Ramsey County, since January 2023, presiding over dissolution, custody, support, domestic abuse and harassment matters. She was previously a partner at Collins, Buckley, Sauntry & Haugh, where she practiced family law.
Victoria Elsmore (Courtesy of the Office of Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan)
Elsmore will be chambered at the downtown St. Paul courthouse.
“Victoria Elsmore will be a familiar face and a welcome addition to an already dynamic bench,” Walz said Wednesday in a statement announcing the appointment. “She is filling the seat of the late Judge Patrick Diamond, someone who left a lasting legacy on this court and community.
Diamond, who served more than a dozen years on the Ramsey County District Court bench, suffered cardiac arrest in late January and died on Feb. 9 at the University of Minnesota Hospital, surrounded by loved ones. He was 64.
Elsmore’s community involvement includes serving on the Board of Trustees for Mitchell Hamline School of Law, an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and the immediate past president of the Ramsey County Bar Association. She earned her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and her J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law.
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