Edward Toussaint

{{short description|American judge}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name =Edward Toussaint

| image name =

| office= Judge of the
Minnesota Court of Appeals

| appointed=

| term_start = November 1, 2010

| term_end = July 15, 2011

| birth_date ={{birth date and age|1941|10|7}}

| office2= Chief Judge of the
Minnesota Court of Appeals

| appointed2= Arne Carlson

| term_start2= November 1, 1995

| term_end2= October 31, 2010

| preceded2= Anne V. Simonett

| succeeded2= Matthew E. Johnson

| office3= Hennepin County
District Court Judge

| appointed3= Arne Carlson

| term_start3= 1992

| term_end3= 1995

| alma_mater = DePaul University

| spouse=

| children=

}}Edward Toussaint, Jr. (born October 7, 1941){{cite web |url=http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/coajudgebio.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-01-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109063958/http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/coajudgebio.html |archivedate=2013-01-09 }} is an American lawyer and judge from Minnesota. For 16 years, from 1995 until July 2011, he served as a judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Toussaint was appointed Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals in 1995 by Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson. He held the position until October 2010, when he stepped down as Chief Judge to take a seat on the court as an associate judge. He remained on the court until July 15, 2011, when he retired due to the state's mandatory retirement age.[http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/4153/ Minnesota Court of Appeals Gets New Chief Judge]

Toussaint now serves as a professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law in Saint Paul.{{Cite web |url=http://web.wmitchell.edu/news/2011/07/honorable-edward-toussaint-joins-william-mitchell-faculty/ |title=Hon. Edward Toussaint Joins William Mitchell Faculty |access-date=2011-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318030939/http://web.wmitchell.edu/news/2011/07/honorable-edward-toussaint-joins-william-mitchell-faculty/ |archive-date=2012-03-18 |url-status=dead }} Before serving on the Court of Appeals, Toussaint served as a district judge in Hennepin County.