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With the exception of Milwaukee County, chief judges and their deputies continue to hear cases while serving. Chief judges assign judges to hear only a specific type of case (e.g. civil, criminal, juvenile), equalize the flow of cases, establish court policies and rules, and supervise the finances of the courts they administer.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the highest and final court of appeals in the state judicial system of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.In addition to hearing appeals of lower Wisconsin court decisions, the Wisconsin Supreme Court also has the option to take original jurisdiction of cases, and serves as a regulator and administrator of judicial conduct and the practice of law in Wisconsin.
He worked in private practice from 1975 to 1976. Between 1976 and 1981, he worked as an assistant district attorney in Milwaukee before returning to private practice. [2] In 1992, Kremers was appointed to the Wisconsin Circuit Court in Milwaukee County by then-Governor Tommy Thompson, a Republican. He was elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1999 ...
The act combined the pre-1978 County Courts with the pre-1978 Circuit Courts to create a single level of trial courts—the present Wisconsin Circuit Courts. The act also created the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. [2]
Law school District I; Maxine Aldridge White, Chief Judge: 1951 (age 73–74) February 7, 2020: 2027 Tony Evers (D) Marquette: M. Joseph Donald, Deputy Chief Judge February 8, 1959 (age 66) September 4, 2019: 2026 Tony Evers (D) Marquette Sara Geenen: 1981 or 1982 (age 42–43) August 1, 2023: 2029 — [b] Wisconsin: Pedro Colón
Maria S. Lazar was born Maria Pellegrini in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned her bachelor's degree from Mount Mary College in 1986 and went on to earn her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1989. [1] For most of the next 20 years, she worked as an attorney in civil litigation in the Milwaukee law firm Galanis, Pollack, Jacobs and ...
In the mid-1970s, the Wisconsin Supreme Court began experimenting with organizational reforms to the state court system and, in 1975, set up 14 judicial administrative districts—each with a chief judge tasked with managing judicial assignments for circuit and county judges in the district and supervising court schedules. [6]
He currently serves as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Milwaukee County, since his appointment on September 22, 2020, by Governor Tony Evers. He previously represented Milwaukee for 16 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was a candidate for Attorney General of Wisconsin in 2014.