There's big change coming to Wisconsin Supreme Court. Here's an inside look at the justices.
With Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz's victory over former Supreme Court justice Dan Kelly in the spring election, the Wisconsin Supreme Court's conservative majority will shift to a liberal majority for the first time in 15 years.
Protasiewicz will start her year term Aug. 1, replacing retiring conservative Justice Patience D. Roggensack.
Here's a rundown of who's on the court and a look at each of the justices:
Who are the current Wisconsin Supreme Court justices?
- Chief Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler, conservative, term ends
- Ann Walsh Bradley, liberal, term ends
- Patience D. Roggensack, conservative, term ends , not seeking re-election.
- Rebecca Grassl Bradley, conservative, term ends
- Rebecca Frank Dallet, liberal, term ends
- Brian Hagedorn, conservative, term ends
- Jill J. Karofsky, liberal, term ends
About newly elected Janet Protasiewicz
Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz, 60, served as a Milwaukee County prosecutor for more than 25 years, prosecuting domestic abuse and other violent crimes. She received her law degree from Marquette Law Schoo
Court of Appeals
Patience D. Roggensack was elected to District IV in She was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in after serving on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals for seven years. Born in Joliet, Illinois, Judge Roggensack earned her bachelor's degree in biology from Drake University. As an undergraduate, she received the Mortar Board and Tri-Beta scholastic awards. She is a honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School and was a principal in the Madison law firm of DeWitt Ross & Stevens prior to her election to the Court of Appeals.
She has served as the Legislative Liaison for the Judicial Conference, on the Committee for Public Trust and Confidence in the Courts, as the court's delegate to the Personnel Review Board, and as a co-chair person for the State Court/Tribal Court Planning Committee.
She is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Judges Association, National Association of Women Judges, American Bar Association, Judicature, State Bar of Wisconsin, Dane County Bar Association, Legal Association of Women and the Bar Association for the Western District of Wisconsin, of which she is a past president. She is a frequent gu
Supreme Court
Justice Patience Drake Roggensack was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in and re-elected in On May 1, , she became the first justice chosen by members of the Court to serve as chief justice. She was re-elected to serve as chief justice May 1, and May 1, Justice Roggensack was the first Court of Appeals judge to have been elected to the Supreme Court.
Born in Joliet, Ill., Justice Roggensack received a bachelor's degree in biology from Drake University. She worked as a research associate at several universities prior to entering the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she graduated with honors in
Before joining the Supreme Court, Justice Roggensack was elected to the Court of Appeals in and re-elected in Prior to becoming a judge, Justice Roggensack practiced law for 16 years in state and federal courts.
Justice Roggensack is a past commissioner of the Uniform Laws Commission and Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She has served as chairperson of the Wisconsin Judicial Conference, chairperson of the Commission on Children and Families, chairperson of PPAC, chairperson of the Supreme Court Finance Committee and a member of the Committee for Publ
Patience Drake Roggensack
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Patience Drake Roggensack (also known as Pat) was a judge of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She assumed office on August 1,
Roggensack first became a member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court through a nonpartisan election. She was first elected to the court in to the seat vacated by Justice William A. Bablitch. On April 29, , the other justices of the supreme court elected Roggensack as chief justice. She succeeded Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson.[1] Roggensack was re-elected to additional two-year terms as chief justice on April 13, , and on April 30, [2][3] She was succeeded by Annette Ziegler on May 1, [4] To read more about judicial selection in Wisconsin, click here.
In , Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[5] Ro
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