Nancy E Brasel

Judge Nancy Brasel serves as a Minnesota State District Court Judge for the Fourth Judicial District, where she has served since she was appointed to the bench by Governor Dayton in 2011. Over the last seven years, she has presided over cases in the juvenile, adult criminal, and civil divisions. Prior to her appointment, she spent three years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, where she prosecuted over 80 defendants for narcotics, firearms, and financial crimes. Before joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Judge Brasel was a partner at Greene Espel, P.L.L.P., where her practice focused on business and employment litigation. Upon graduation from law school, Judge Brasel served as a law clerk to Judge Donald P. Lay, a Minnesota-based judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Judge Brasel earned her B.A. from Trinity University, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, her M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif and served as a managing editor of the Minnesota Law Review.