Robin A. Schmidt

Judge Schmidt was appointed as District Court Judge for the Northwest Judicial District, Judgeship No. 4, located in Watford City, North Dakota, by Governor Jack Dalrymple in 2013. She was subsequently elected to the position in 2016.

Born in 1976, Judge Schmidt graduated from Sawyer High School and went on to attend the University of North Dakota, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work in 1999. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 2004 and was admitted to the North Dakota State Bar on September 27, 2004.

Following law school, Judge Schmidt served as a law clerk for the North Dakota Supreme Court from 2004 to 2005. She then entered private legal practice in Fargo, North Dakota, where she worked from 2005 to 2010. From 2010 until her appointment to the bench in 2013, she practiced law privately in Watford City.