Esther Tomljanovich
Esther Jeanne Moellering Tomljanovich (born November 1, 1931) is an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. She served as a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Tomljanovich was born in Galt, Iowa. She moved with her parents to Buck Lake in Itasca County, Minnesota. She earned her law degree from William Mitchell College of Law (then the St. Paul College of Law) in 1955. Tomljanovich married her husband in 1957. She lived in Lake Elmo, Minnesota with her husband and family. Tomljanovich served on the Lake Elmo Planning Commission and on North St. Paul-Maplewood School Board. From  1957 to 1977, she worked in the Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes, first as Assistant Revisor and then as Revisor. She served as a state district court judge in Washington County from 1977 to 1990, when Governor Rudy Perpich appointed her to the Minnesota Supreme Court. Tomljanovich served on the Minnesota Supreme Court until her retirement in 1998. She joined the Medica Board of Directors in 2002 and stills serves on that Board.