Jason Hutchison is a Twin Cities family law mediator and dispute resolution professional with more than two decades of legal experience. A cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, Jason founded Hutchison Dispute Resolution LLC in 2026 to focus on mediation, moderated settlement conferences (MSCs), and special master and consensual special magistrate work throughout the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metro area and greater Minnesota.
Before entering private dispute resolution, Jason served for fourteen years as a Judicial Referee in the Hennepin County Fourth Judicial District — one of the busiest courts in Minnesota. During that time, he presided over thousands of cases involving marital dissolution, divorce, child custody, paternity, domestic abuse, orders for protection, Extreme Risk Protective Orders (ERPOs), and matters arising under Minnesota's artificial reproductive technologies (ARTS) statutes. Attorneys who worked in front of Jason during his tenure on the bench know him as a careful, thorough, and pragmatic judicial officer — qualities he now brings directly to the mediation and ADR space in Minnesota divorce and family law cases.
Jason's pre-judicial career adds further depth to his credentials. As a prosecuting attorney, assistant city attorney, and private attorney, he handled criminal prosecution, civil litigation, business formation, fraudulent transfer issues, municipal law, real property transactions, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, and land use and title matters — giving him a command of the full range of legal issues that frequently surface in complex family law mediations, including property division, business valuation, real estate, and marital debt. That broad foundation makes him an unusually well-rounded neutral for high-conflict/ high-asset divorce cases, custody disputes, and other family law matters requiring a mediator who can engage substantively with complicated legal and financial issues - while bringing a human touch devolved over years of managing litigation from the Bench.
Family law attorneys in the Twin Cities selecting a mediator for their clients will find in Jason a neutral who has seen these cases from every angle — as a litigator, as a judicial office who presided over cases for fourteen years, and as a trainer who has presented on family law topics at the Minnesota Court of Appeals, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers' Divorce Camp, AFCC-Minnesota, and numerous MinnCLE programs. He is a current board member of AFCC-Minnesota (Association of Family and Conciliation Courts) and completed his 40-hour family mediation training and SENE/FENE training through AFCC-Minnesota in 2025.
Whether you are a family law attorney in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, or anywhere in the Twin Cities metro looking for a mediator with genuine judicial experience and deep subject-matter expertise, Jason T. Hutchison offers a rare combination of practical knowledge, institutional credibility, and a demonstrated commitment to helping parties reach durable, workable resolutions. To discuss scheduling a mediation or moderated settlement conference, contact Hutchison Dispute Resolution LLC directly.
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