The Honorable Judge LaJune Thomas Lange is a senior fellow with the Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice. A retired State of Minnesota trial court judge, Lange is an expert on legal and constitutional standards for discrimination in state and federal courts. She began her career with the Hennepin County Public Defender's Office as a trial lawyer until appointed to the Hennepin County Municipal Court in 1985. She became a district judge when the Municipal Court was merged with the District Court in 1986 and served on the District Court Bench until her recent retirement.

Lange is a former co-vice chair of the Minnesota Supreme Court Task Force on Racial Bias in the Courts and a former member of the Minnesota Supreme Court Task Force on Gender Fairness in the Courts. She is a founding member of the Minnesota Minority Lawyers Association and has served on the Minnesota Women's Lawyers committee, Minnesota Public Interest Research Foundation, the American Bar Association, National Bar Association, Women Judges Association, the Minnesota State Bar Association's Board of Governors, and the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers. She also is an adjunct professor of civil rights and human rights at William Mitchell College of Law.

Lange graduated from Augsburg College in 1968 and later received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.