He attended St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, but his studies were interrupted by World War II.
[5] He also took on more serious and complex topics, writing an influential law review article in 1977 on the use of partial settlements of multi-defendant civil suits.
[6] In 1980, when Little Falls native Walter F. Rogosheske retired from the Minnesota Supreme Court, Governor Al Quie appointed Simonett to fill the vacancy.
"[1] Looking back on Simonett's opinions at the time of his retirement, Robert Stein (then the dean of the University of Minnesota Law School) commented that his decisions cannot readily be classified as conservative.
[13] Another of his daughters, Martha Simonett, was later appointed to fill a District Court vacancy in Dakota County.