Cameron Kelly

Cameron Kelly enjoys providing personalized estate planning for families in Minnesota and Wisconsin. His practice includes assisting clients with comprehensive estate planning including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care directives, and living wills. He also has a special interest in the estate, gift, income taxation of estates and trusts, and charitable planning.

Cameron serves in multiple capacities on the Probate & Trust Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association. He is currently the treasure of the Section Council, a past co-chair of the Section’s Legislative Committee and past chair of the Section’s Technology Committee. As part of his work with the Probate & Trust Section he has testified before committees in the Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate in February of 2026 on the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act, which passed and became law on August 1, 2026, and before the House Judiciary Finance/Civil Law Committee on the Electronic Wills Act in January 2023, which passed and became law on August 1, 2023.

Cameron is a member of the American College of Trust and Estates Attorneys (“ACTEC”). ACTEC’s peer-elected Fellows are at the top of their profession, committed to maintaining excellence in the trust and estate legal field and to continually improving the practice of trust and estate law. He is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education events on estate planning, trusts, and tax planning.

Residing his entire life in Minnesota, Cameron lives with his wife, daughter, and two sons in Stillwater, Minnesota. He is active in the Stillwater and surrounding communities, including serving as a board member on the St. Croix Valley Foundation, providing legal services to cancer patients through Cancer Legal Care and, receiving their Volunteer Attorney of the Year award in 2015 and is a past member of the City of Stillwater Planning Commission.

Cameron has been designated as a Minnesota Super Lawyer since 2019 and as a Rising Star by Minnesota Super Lawyers from 2013 to 2017.

Areas of Practice

• Estate Planning
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Trusts
• Wills
• Estate and Gift Taxation
• Business Succession Planning
• Charitable Planning

Bar Admissions

• Minnesota, 2003
• Wisconsin, 2018

Education

• Gustavus Adolphus College, B.A., 2000
• William Mitchell College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2003
• The John Marshall Law School, LL.M., Estate Planning, 2018

• American College of Trust and Estates Counsel, Fellow (2025 to Present)
• St. Croix Valley Foundation, Board Member (2024 to present)
• Super Lawyer (2019 to Present), Rising Star (2013 - 2017)
• Minnesota State Bar Association, Probate & Trust Section Council (2022 to present), Treasurer (2026 to 2027);
• Minnesota State Bar Association, Legislative Committee, Member (2017 to present); Co-Chair (2022 to 2026); Electronic Wills Act sub-committee, Member (2019 to 2023); Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act sub-committee, Chair (2023 to 2026), Uniform Probate Code sub-committee, Member (2024 to present)
• Chair of Minnesota State Bar Association, Technology and Innovation Committee (2021 to 2022);
• St. Croix Economic Development Corporation, Secretary/Treasurer (2020 to 2022), Board (2019 to 2022)

Presentations and Publications

• “Minnesota Trust Administration Deskbook with eFormbook, Chapter 19, eFormbook, Forms, Optional Paragraphs,” Minnesota CLE, co-Author (2022 – Present)
• Electronic Estate Planning in Minnesota, Bench and Bar, (August, 2026)
• Electronic Wills and Other Estate Planning Documents, Minnesota CLE (July, 2026)
• Should Contesting Cost Everything? The Chafoulias Case and No-Contest Clauses, Minnesota CLE (June, 2026)
• Where Are We on Electronic Wills, Other Electronic Estate Planning Documents, Harmless Error and Remote Notarization?, Minnesota CLE (June, 2026, April, 2026)
• Legislative Update, Probate and Trust Law Section Conference, Minnesota CLE (June, 2026, June 2025, June 2024, June 2023)
• Estate Planning with Life Insurance, Trust Planning for High Net Worth Clients, Minnesota CLE (September, 2025)
• Maximizing the Step-up: Tax Basis Essentials and Planning, 2025 Probate and Trust Law Section Conference, Minnesota CLE (June 2025)
• Your Client’s Insurance Policies, Using Life Insurance Trusts, Estate Planning for the Middle Rich, Minnesota CLE (December 2024)
• Building Blocks of the Basic Will, Minnesota CLE (September 2024)
• “The New Electronic Wills Act and Other Recent Developments in Probate and Trust Law,” Minnesota CLE (September, 2024, June, 2024, January, 2024, August 2023),
• The New Electronic Wills Act, and Other Recent Developments in Probate and Trust Law, MSBA Probate and Trust Section Newsletter, (May 2023)
• Electronic Wills Update, National Business Institute (June 2022)
• Types of Real Estate Ownership: An Overview, Real Estate Strategies for Estate Planning and Medical Assistance Practitioners, Minnesota CLE (November 2019)
• “Trusts 101,” National Business Institute (December 2019)
• “Trusts 101,” National Business Institute (June 2018)
• “Basic Tax Planning” and “Trusts 101,” Estate Planning From A to Z national webinar, National Business Institute (February 2018)
• “Tax Reduction with Trusts,” “Main Trust Principles” and “Simple Testamentary Trusts/Revocable Living Trusts,” Trusts from A to Z, National Business Institute (June 2017)
• “Basic Tax Planning” and “Trusts 101,” Estate Planning from A to Z national webinar, National Business Institute (May 2017)
• “Where to Begin, an Overview of Trusts and Revocable Living Trusts,” Trusts 101, National Business Institute (November 2016)
• “Where to Begin, an Overview of Trusts and Revocable Living Trusts,” Trusts 101, National Business Institute (November 2016)
• “Basic Tax Planning,” Estate Planning from A to Z, National Business Institute webinar (May 2016)