Russell A. Anderson (May 28, 1942 – September 15, 2020) was an attorney who served as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

[2] Anderson graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield in 1964, then went on to the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, earning his J.D.

Lieutenant Commander Anderson served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. Navy.

He acted as prosecutor and defense attorney for general and lesser courts-martial, as military judge for special and summary court-martial, and as civil and criminal staff attorney in the Office of Judge Advocate General, Washington, D.C.[3] He was in private practice in Bemidji from 1976 to 1982.

Anderson had worked as judge on the Ninth District Court since 1983, having been appointed by Governor Al Quie.