Anne Simonett

{{short description|American judge}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Anne Simonett

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| birth_date=July 30, 1952

| birth_place= Little Falls, Minnesota

| death_date=May 6, 1995

| death_place=Hennepin County, Minnesota

| office= Chief Judge of the
Minnesota Court of Appeals

| appointed= Arne Carlson

| term_start = July 1, 1994

| term_end = March 31, 1995

| preceded = Paul H. Anderson

| succeeded= Edward Toussaint, Jr.

| alma_mater = Lawrence University
Yale University
Harvard University

| spouse= Henry Shea

| children= Two

}}Anne V. Simonett (1952–1995) was an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. She was the first woman to be Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

The daughter of the Minnesota Supreme Court Justice John E. Simonett, Anne Simonett received a degree in music from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. She received a master's degree in music performance, graduating magna cum laude from Yale University. She received her law degree from Harvard University in 1981.

Simonett worked in business litigation for Faegre & Benson and became a partner. She was appointed a trial court judge in Minnesota's Fourth Judicial District. In 1994 Governor Arne Carlson named her to be Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, succeeding Chief Judge Paul H. Anderson, who had been appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court.

During her first year in office, Simonett was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor. She resigned on March 31, 1995 and died on May 6 the same year.