Jim has been selected thirteen times as a Minnesota Law & Politics “Super Lawyer” (2001, 2002, 2004, and 2006 through 2015) and has also received an AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating in the distinguished legal directory, Martindale-Hubbell®. (AV® Preeminent™ is a certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies). Jim speaks at various Minnesota Continuing Legal Education programs, including, most recently, the 2014 and 2015 Minnesota Closely Held Business Conferences and the 2015 Drafting and Reviewing Contracts seminar.

Jim received his Juris Doctor degree with honors from the University of Minnesota Law School after graduating with honors from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Jim is admitted to represent clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Minnesota Supreme Court, Minnesota’s state appellate and district courts, the Federal District Court for Minnesota, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Tax Court.

Like other attorneys at Henningson & Snoxell, Jim is active in the communities we serve and his home neighborhood. Jim recently completed serving as a director of the Brooklyn Community Business Association, director of the TwinWest Chamber Foundation and the North Hennepin Community College Foundation. These foundations are higher education scholarship organizations. Jim is a past director of the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce and past President of the Brooklyn Community Chamber of Commerce. He has served as a Co-chairperson and director of the St. Anthony Park Community Council (a publicly elected district planning and city-community liaison organization).

Jim has served his Church as its Moderator (two terms), Treasurer (three years), and as chairperson of major remodeling projects in 1997-1998, fundraising and major repair project in 2008, and the capital campaign for major renovation work being done in 2015-2016. Jim presently serves on the Board of Governors of St. Anthony Park Properties, LLC, and on the Board of Trustees of his Church.

When away from the office, Jim enjoys hiking, gardening, and a variety of activities with his family. In recent years Jim enjoyed leading a Destination Imagination team at his neighborhood’s elementary school for four years and many seasons of youth soccer coaching. Jim has also been an adult Cub Scout leader and an age group coordinator and team manager for the Blackhawks of St. Paul Soccer Club.