Patrick J. Schiltz

Patrick Joseph Schiltz (born 1960) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. He was appointed to the Minnesota federal district court in 2006 by President George W. Bush. Before becoming a federal judge, Schiltz was a law professor at the University of St. Thomas and the University of Notre Dame.

Early life and education

Schiltz was born in 1960, in Duluth, Minnesota, and grew up there. He graduated from the College of St. Scholastica in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in history with a minor in sociology. He graduated in 1985 with a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude. one of the most widely read law-review articles ever published. The Vanderbilt Law Review published the article and made it the focus of a symposium, and an op-ed in the Washington Post later called the article one of nine works every law student should read. One of Schlitz's star students at Notre Dame was future Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett, whom Schiltz helped get a clerkship with Justice Scalia.

In 2000, Schiltz left Notre Dame to become the founding associate dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota. He had primary responsibility for almost every significant aspect of creating the school, from hiring the faculty to designing the building. In 2002, Schiltz was named the St. Thomas More Chair in Law, the first endowed chair at the School of Law. He took senior status on July 1, 2026. Robles was then released before the date on which Lyons had been ordered to appear. Schiltz found that ICE had violated at least 96 court orders in Minnesota since January 1, 2026.

Selected scholarly works