Mary Muehlen Maring (born July 27, 1951) was a justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. Mary Muehlen Maring was born and raised in Devils Lake, North Dakota. She graduated with B.A. degree in Political Science and German from Moorhead State University in 1972 and in 1975 a juris doctor degree from the University of North Dakota School of Law. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1996 and retired in 2013. Career 1975-1976 - law clerk for the Honorable Bruce C. Stone, Hennepin County District Court, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1976-1996 - entered private practice of law and practiced law in North Dakota and Minnesota 1996 - appointed by Governor Ed Schafer to the North Dakota Supreme Court 1998 - re-elected to a ten-year term 2008 - re-elected to a ten-year term 2013 - retired External links Mary Muehlen Maring biography North Dakota Supreme Court website Justices of the North Dakota Supreme Court University of North Dakota alumni American women judges 1951 births Living people 20th-century American women judges 21st-century American women judges