The JFK Assassination Revisited

The Honorable John R. Tunheim has served for 29 years as United States District Judge in the District of Minnesota and served as Chief Judge from 2015 until July 1, 2022.  He also sits regularly as a Visiting Judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1994-1998 Judge Tunheim served as Chair of the U.S. Assassination Records Review Board, an independent federal agency empowered to declassify the remaining secret records of the assassination of President Kennedy. Before his appointment as a federal judge, he served as Minnesota’s Chief Deputy Attorney General where he argued three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and earlier, in the U.S. Senate, as Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. He has devoted much of his judicial career to helping develop the rule of law in new democracies, including drafting the Kosovo Constitution and advising more than 40 countries on the development of the rule of law. He is a leader in the federal judiciary, having served as a member of the U.S. Judicial Conference from 2020 to 2024 and formerly serving as Chair of the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management. He is a graduate of Concordia College in Moorhead and the University of Minnesota Law School, where he served as President of the Law Review. He is a former Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and a former Chair of the Concordia College Board of Regents. Judge Tunheim currently serves on the Minnesota Historical Society Executive Council.