Jay Knudson

Judge Knudson was appointed as District Court Judge by Governor Doug Burgum in 2017 for the Northeast Central Judicial District #3 located in Grand Forks, ND.

Born in 1979; Judge Knudson grew up on a farm near Clifford, ND.  He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Dakota in 2001.  He receieved his Juris Doctor from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 2004, and was admitted to the N.D. Bar on September 27, 2004.  

Judge Knudson worked in private legal practice in Grand Forks for six years following law school, and served as a staff attorney in the Indigent Defense Office in Grand Forks for four years.  He was a Judicial Referee/Magistrate Judge for the Northeast Central Judicial District from 2015-2016 and was in private legal practice until his judgeship in 2017.