BP: The court heads north: Minnesota Supreme Court – and its first American Indian justice – visit Red Lake

RED LAKE -- The gym quieted when Anne McKeig spoke.

An associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court who grew up in Federal Dam and went on to be the state’s -- and almost certainly the nation’s -- first American Indian supreme court judge, she admonished the Red Lake students who chatted among themselves while Chief Justice Lorie Gildea told them about the state’s pardon board.

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