David Stras

David Stras
Stras in 2017
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Assumed office
January 31, 2018
Appointed byDonald Trump
Preceded byDiana E. Murphy
Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
In office
July 1, 2010  January 31, 2018
Appointed byTim Pawlenty
Preceded byLorie Gildea
Succeeded byPaul Thissen
Personal details
Born
David Ryan Stras

(1974-07-04) July 4, 1974
Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
Children2
EducationUniversity of Kansas (BA, JD–MBA)

David Ryan Stras (born July 4, 1974) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He was a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 2010 to 2018 and a law professor at the University of Minnesota Law School from 2004 to 2010.