Susan Holden is a partner and shareholder in the law firm of SiebenCarey where she has spent her career representing clients in a variety of complex personal injury and wrongful death claims. She focuses her practice in cases involving trucking and automobile accidents, product defects, construction accidents, medical malpractice, and class action matters involving privacy and data breaches. Susan’s practice also includes serving as an ADR neutral as an arbitrator, mediator or special master. Susan has earned a reputation as a hard-working and talented trial lawyer. Since 1995 she has been certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the Minnesota State Bar Association, a distinction achieved by less than one percent of women lawyers in Minnesota. Martindale-Hubbell, the most respected legal directory in the legal community, gave Susan an AV Preeminent 5.0 Rating, its highest rating for professional skills and integrity. Susan’s career has included extensive involvement in law related organizations and bar associations, including leadership as president of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (2018), president of the Minnesota State Bar Association (2005-2006) and president of the Hennepin County Bar Association (1999-2000). Susan has served on the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates since 2007 and is currently serving on the ABA Board of Governors. Susan also serves on the boards of a variety of other professional associations and community organizations including two non-profits that are near and dear to her: Achieve Services, Inc., a day training and habilitation program for adults with disabilities, and Lakeland Public Television, the PBS broadcaster in northern Minnesota where she grew up. In addition to her trial practice, in 2008 Susan was appointed to chair the Special Master Panel in the specially created compensation process for survivors of the I-35W bridge collapse. Her responsibilities included designing and implementing a claims process, completing hearings and damages determinations, and deciding a fair distribution of the $36.64 million appropriated by the Minnesota legislature to compensate survivors of that disaster. Susan is admitted to practice in the Minnesota State and Federal Courts, the Federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. She received her law degree from William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, and her undergraduate degree in political science from St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota.