Forty Years and Forty Days

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Fannie Smith began her court reporting career in Chicago. Soon she moved back to Minneapolis, near family. There she freelanced, working in the court system as a substitute and covering most of the conventions and business meetings in the area. The last 18 years, she was an official for the first judicial district working for Judge Robert J. Breunig. The area was rural, and became urban, bordering the south and west Twin Cities. In 1967, we were four judges and 4 court reporters. When I retired in 1985, there were near 30. Today the number has more than doubled. District, county and city judges became the same and rotated throughout the courts of the district. In the 1970