--- title: "Laura Margarete Provinzino | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/laura-margarete-provinzino" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-09" --- # Laura Margarete Provinzino U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota · Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - State: Minnesota - Role: Judge - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-25 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - American lawyer and United States district judge for the District of Minnesota, appointed by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in September 2024 - Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Minnesota, 2010-2024 - Law clerk to Judge Diana E. Murphy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2003–2004) ### Education - Yale Law School — J.D. (2003) - University of Oxford — B.A. (2000) - Balliol College — B.A. (2000) - Lewis and Clark College — B.A. (1998) ### Additional information - Nominated by President Biden on June 13, 2024, to replace Judge Wilhelmina Wright, who took senior status - Deputy chief, Violent and Major Crimes, 2022-2023 - Deputy chief, Major Crimes, 2018-2022 - Human Trafficking Coordinator, 2014-2018 - Project Safe Childhood Coordinator, 2012-2014 - Private practice, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2006-2010 - Wellstone Legal Fellow, The Advocates for Human Rights, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2004-2006 - Born 1975 in St. Cloud, Minnesota. - Date of birth: 1975 - One of the prosecutors in the high-profile case against Anton Lazzaro for trafficking multiple teenage girls, leading to a 21-year federal sentence - Birth place: St. Cloud ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### civil remote testimony Scope: courtwide In federal district-court civil proceedings, testimony is ordinarily taken in open court; remote contemporaneous testimony requires good cause in compelling circumstances and appropriate safeguards. Evidence excerpt: For good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards, the court may permit testimony in open court by contemporaneous transmission from a different location. [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ### criminal recording and broadcasting Scope: courtwide Federal district courts may not permit courtroom photography or broadcasting during criminal judicial proceedings unless a statute or another federal rule provides an exception. Evidence excerpt: Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom. [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761860) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761860) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761860) - [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) - [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) - [Judge Laura Margarete Provinzino](https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761860) - [Wikidata: Laura Provinzino](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125651031) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/laura-margarete-provinzino", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/laura-margarete-provinzino", "name": "Laura Margarete Provinzino | KnowJudges", "description": "Laura Margarete Provinzino, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. 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Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule. [Official source](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-civil-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27. - [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, December 1, 2025](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-8721a344fececced2257fe1d) — Criminal proceedings in United States District Courts; this conservative mapping does not distribute appellate-specific provisions to appellate judges. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule. [Official source](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27.