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Governor Walz Appoints Jessica Palmer-Denig Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Court of Administrative Hearings





December 3, 2025

[ST. PAUL, MN] – Governor Tim Walz today announced the appointment of Jessica Palmer-Denig as chief administrative law judge at the Court of Administrative Hearings (formerly known as the Office of Administrative Hearings). Palmer-Denig will begin serving upon the completion of Tim O’Malley’s term as temporary chief judge, for a term expiring on June 30, 2031. She will replace O’Malley, who has been serving as temporary chief judge since July 1, 2025.

*Jessica Palmer-Denig:* Jessica Palmer-Denig is an assistant chief administrative law judge at the Court of Administrative Hearings. She previously worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as an assistant attorney general in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, and as an associate at the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney, LLP. Palmer-Denig also served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Mary Muehlen Maring of the North Dakota Supreme Court and the Honorable Donovan W. Frank of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Palmer-Denig’s community involvement includes serving as the president of the Ramsey County Bar Foundation and on the boards of the Ramsey County Bar Association and Ramsey County Law Library. She also co-chairs the bar association’s Youth Civics Initiative through which she develops and promotes youth civics educational programming. She earned her B.A from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

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