Vol 27 No 1 H I G H L I G H T S REGULAR FEATURES: 2 Graham appointed to Court of Appeals 10 Wisconsin celebrates Law Day 3 Retirements Spring/ 2 Six circuit court judges appointed 13 Child welfare conference set 3 New Faces Summer 2 Chief judges re-appointed 18 Justice on Wheels turns 25 5 Awards 2019 4 ‘Blended’ court reporting rule adopted 21 Office of Research and Justice 8 Wisconsin Connects 6 Court interpreter certification at 15 Statistics established 9 Obituaries years 31 Justice Ziegler honored by Marquette 11 News and Notes Spring Election: Hagedorn wins Supreme Court race; Nashold joins Court of Appeals; three new judges elected to circuit courts udge Brian K. Hagedorn defeated fellow District II Court of Appeals JJudge Lisa S. Neubauer in the April 2 Spring Election to win a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, effective Aug. 1.

a publication of the Wisconsin Judiciary a publication of the Wisconsin Hagedorn fills the seat being vacated by retiring Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson. (See story, below) Hagedorn has been a Court of Appeals judge since being appointed in 2015. He previously worked as chief legal counsel to former Gov. Scott Walker, as an assistant state attorney general at the state Department of Justice, as a law clerk to former Justice Michael J. Gableman, and as an attorney in private practice. Hagedorn is a 2006 graduate of Northwestern University Law School. Neubauer, who is chief judge of the Court of Appeals, was first Justice-elect Brian K. Judge-elect Jennifer E. Judicial appointments - Page 2 see Election on page 12 Hagedorn Nashold Chief Justice Roggensack elected to third term as chief justice ustices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court serve as chief justice since a 2015 constitutional Jelected Chief Justice Patience Drake amendment which provided that the chief justice Roggensack to a third consecutive two-year term “shall be elected for a term of 2 years by a as chief justice, effective May 1. majority of the justices then serving on the “I am honored to have the opportunity to court.” Roggensack’s first term as chief justice continue serving in this vital role, alongside six began on May 1, 2015, and she was re-elected as very dedicated and talented justices,” chief justice in 2017. Roggensack said. “I look forward to working Roggensack was first elected to the Wisconsin with them, as well as my colleagues throughout Supreme Court in 2003, and she was re-elected the Judiciary, to ensure Wisconsin has an as a justice in 2013. Prior to serving on the effective court system.” see Chief Justice on page 13 Chief Justice Patience Roggensack was the first justice chosen to Drake Roggensack Justice Abrahamson honored as pioneer, leader and role model in legal profession undreds of people, including dignitaries from Hnear and far, gathered in the Capitol Rotunda on June 18 to honor retiring Justice Shirley Abrahamson for her decades of accomplishments in the law, the legal profession and 43 years of service on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared via video recording, The Third Branch recognizing Abrahamson’s deep regard for the law and “all the people” it serves. “Among jurists I have encountered in the United States and abroad, Shirley Abrahamson is the very best, the most courageous and sage,” Ginsberg said. Abrahamson, the longest serving justice in Wisconsin history, has contributed enormously to U.S. Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit Judge Diane S. Sykes connects with Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson after Sykes speaks during an Abrahamson see Abrahamson on page 14 tribute June 18 in the state Capitol Rotunda. www.wicourts.gov 2

Spring/ Graham appointed to Court of Appeals; Summer 2019 six new circuit court judges appointed THE THIRD BRANCH n June 13, Gov. Tony Evers He has an undergraduate degree Oannounced the appointment of from Duke University and a law Atty. Rachel A. Graham to replace degree from UW Law School. District IV Court of Appeals Judge Judge Jon E. Fredrickson was Gary Sherman, who retired July 5 appointed on Sept. 28, 2018 to (See story, page 3). fill the vacancy created by the Prior to her appointment, retirement of Racine County Graham practiced at Quarles & Circuit Court Judge Charles H. Brady in Madison and worked as a Constantine (See story, page 24) law clerk to Wisconsin Supreme Fredrickson was in private Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. practice since 2001, and prior to Graham also previously worked as that, worked as an associate and a special education teacher. She is Judge Rachel A. Graham law clerk at a law firm. Judge Jon E. a graduate of Northwestern Fredrickson earned his Fredrickson University and received her law undergraduate degree from the degree from UW Law School. University of Southern California and holds a law degree Graham is Gov. Evers’ first from Marquette University Law School. judicial appointment since he took Judge Brad D. Schimel was appointed to the Waukesha office as governor in January. County Circuit Court on Nov. 20, 2018 to replace retiring Former Gov. Scott Walker made Judge Patrick C. Haughney (See story, page 24). six new circuit court judges Schimel, who served as Wisconsin Attorney General from appointments in five counties 2014 until his appointment to the bench, began his legal during the last half of 2018 and career as a prosecutor in the Waukesha County District first days of 2019. Attorney’s Office in 1990. He was elected Waukesha Judge Andrew Jones was County District Attorney in 2006, and served in that appointed to the Milwaukee capacity until 2014, when he was elected attorney general. County Circuit Court on Aug. 16, Judge Andrew Jones As attorney general, Schimel served as the co-chair of the 2018 to fill the vacancy created Statewide Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. He had when Justice Rebecca Frank Dallet was elected to the previously served on the executive Committee of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Jones was subsequently defeated Waukesha County Criminal Justice Collaborating Council, in the Spring Election by Atty. Danielle Shelton, who takes and numerous justice-related committees. He is a former office Aug. 1 (See story, front page). member of the Wisconsin Judicial Council. Jones previously worked as an attorney at the New York City Law Department and in private practice in Milwaukee. see Appointments on page 17

Chief judges re-appointed in five districts n June 12, the Wisconsin Jennifer R. Dorow, Waukesha OSupreme Court re-appointed County Circuit Court, to another chief judges to continue in their term as chief judge. Dorow was administrative leadership roles in first appointed chief judge in five of the state’s nine judicial 2017. She has served on the administrative districts, effective Waukesha County Circuit Court Aug. 1. since being appointed in 2011. In District One, which She was elected in 2012 and re- encompasses Milwaukee County, elected in 2018. District Three the Court re-appointed Chief includes Dodge, Jefferson, Judge Maxine A. White, Ozaukee, Waukesha, and Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Washington counties. White currently serves as the In District Four, the Court re- Chief Judge Maxine A. chair of the committee of chief White appointed Chief Judge Barbara Chief Judge Jennifer R. judges, presiding over committee Hart Key, Winnebago County Dorow meetings and appointing subcommittee members, among Circuit Court, to a second two- other duties. White was first appointed chief judge in 2015 year term as chief judge. Key was first appointed chief and was previously re-appointed to a two-year term in 2017. judge in 2017. She was first elected to the Winnebago She was first appointed to the Milwaukee County Circuit County Circuit Court in 1998 and has been re-elected three Court in 1992, was elected in 1993, and has been re-elected times. District Four includes Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green four times. In District Three, the Court re-appointed Chief Judge see Chief Judges on page 19 3

RETIREMENTS Spring/ Summer his edition of the The Third Branch features retiring Judge Paul Lundsten 2019 Tjudges who provided information about their work and THE THIRD BRANCH careers to the newsletter. In addition to Wisconsin Supreme Court of Appeals - District IV Court Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson (See story, front page), Court of Appeals Judge Paul Lundsten will retire at the the following judges retired in end of his term July 31 after serving 19 years on the District recent months: IV bench. Lundsten was appointed in 2000, elected in 2001, Judge Gary L. Bendix, and re-elected in 2007 and 2013. Manitowoc County Circuit Court, “I was very lucky to end up as an appellate court judge. retired in July 2018. He served And, I was even more lucky to serve with uniformly terrific seven years on the bench and was people in a job that requires a lot of team work. I will not first appointed by former Gov. Scott miss reading briefs and records, but I will miss all the Walker in 2011. hardworking public servants in the court system statewide,” Judge Robert E. Eaton, Ashland Lundsten said. County Circuit Court, retired in July 2018. He was first appointed to the Judge Gary E. Sherman circuit court in 1993, was elected in Court of Appeals - District IV 1994 and re-elected three times. Judge Gary E. Sherman retired on July 5, having served Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Paul Lundsten more than nine years on the District IV Court of Appeals. Judge Thomas J. Gritton retired at Sherman was first appointed in 2010 by then-Gov. Jim the end of his term in July 2018. He was first elected to his Doyle. Before his appointment, Sherman was a state position in 2000. representative for the 74th Assembly St. Croix County Circuit Court Judge Eric J. Lundell District in Northwestern Wisconsin. retired in January. He was first appointed to the bench in He is a former president of the State 1989. Bar of Wisconsin. Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer L. Weston Sherman’s 12 years of legislative retired in July 2018 after almost nine years on the bench. experience and 20 years prior She was first elected in 2009 and re-elected in 2015. experience in private practice offered Several other judges have announced that they will retire added perspective on being a judge. in coming months and will be featured in future editions: “Our work is about solving the real Judge William M. Atkinson, Brown County Circuit Court problems of real people and that is Judge Kitty K. Brennan, Court of Appeals, District I; Judge often lost. I come from a very broad Lee S. Dreyfus Jr., Waukesha County Circuit Court; Judge practice background, which seems Michael J. Dwyer, Milwaukee County Circuit Court; Judge rare on the bench. I have been able Eugene D. Harrington, Washburn County Circuit Court; and to use the knowledge from this Judge Nancy J. Krueger, Outagamie County Circuit Court. Judge Gary E. Sherman see Retirements on page 22 NEW FACES Office of Judicial Education University. She taught 5th grade for a number of years, worked as a college admissions counselor, and most Emily Brooks recently, was an Instructional Design Consultant at UW The Office of Judicial Education recently welcomed three Colleges Online. new staff members. Emily Brooks joined the Office of Judicial Education in August Laurie Nelson 2018 as Judicial Resource and Laurie Nelson has joined the Office of Judicial Education Outreach Coordinator. team as the Conference Coordinator. Nelson oversees Brooks creates and maintains a conference sites, contracts, banquets, and catering services. variety of online resources for In addition, Laurie is the records the Wisconsin Judiciary to manager of Judicial Education supplement in-person training Credits. and keep judges informed about Nelson has more than fifteen years educational opportunities. of experience in conference This effort includes production coordination with the state of a new monthly video Department of Public Instruction’s newsletter, training videos, and Deaf/Hard of Hearing Outreach team. the collection and distribution of Emily Brooks Prior to that, she was a legal assistant. other resource materials as Laurie replaces Tammy Hennick guided by the Judicial Education Committee, and the who retired in January of 2019 (See Director of the Office of Judicial Education. story, page 28). Brooks has a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Winona State University, and a Master’s degree in see New Faces on page 38 Laurie Nelson Instructional Design and Technology from Western Illinois 4

Spring/ Summer Supreme Court approves rule change tor 2019 ‘blended system’ of court reporting THE THIRD BRANCH Editor’s Note: In its June edition, move toward a “blended system” Wisconsin Lawyer published an of court reporting, in which FAQs on Monitored Digital article on the Supreme Court’s monitored digital audio reporting Audio Recording adoption of a “blended system” of (DAR) with a digital court reporter What is “monitored digital audio court reporting to help address a becomes a standard means of recording”? shortage of stenographic court making the record in addition to Monitored digital audio recording (DAR) is reporters. The Court approved rule traditional stenographic reporting. a type of court reporting where a digital changes presented in Rule Petition The order comes in response to a court reporter, or other monitor designated 19-01, effective July 1. Below is an rule petition filed by Judge Randy by a judge in an emergency situation, uses introductory excerpt from that R. Koschnick, director of state an electronic recording machine to capture article, which was written by courts, who appointed an advisory the verbatim record of a circuit court Circuit Court Legal Advisor Making the Record Committee in proceeding. Katherine “Kat” Carpenter. A 2017 to explore the ongoing What is a digital court reporter? copy of the full article is available shortage of stenographic court A digital court reporter (DCR) is a type of on the State Bar of Wisconsin’s reporters in Wisconsin and court reporter who is trained in the use of website. As of June, DAR nationwide. After months of the DAR system and transcription. A DCR equipment had been installed in research and input from judges, may be the personal appointee of his/her the courtrooms of 71 state court court reporters, and court staff judge or may be a district court reporter. All judges; and 62 court across the state, the committee DCRs must take an oath of office before commissioners. More machines are wrapped up its work in August beginning their position. scheduled to be installed in coming 2018 with recommendations. What type of training is available to months, with the goal of having at In adopting the committee’s plan DCRs? least one machine in each county for implementation, Koschnick CCAP conducts on-site technical training on by the end of this year. filed the rule petition in January to how to use the DAR system for new DCRs establish monitored DAR as an who are hired. DCRs can also get certified n April 22, 2019, the accepted court reporting method as Certified Electronic Court Reporters and OWisconsin Supreme Court and to clarify the ability of the Certified Electronic Transcribers by the issued its final order regarding chief judge and the district court American Association of Electronic Rule Petition 19-01, making administrator to assign court Reporters and Transcribers (AAERT). changes to Supreme Court Rules to reporters to cover court AAERT offers online certification programs address the ongoing shortage of proceedings. Continue reading at through several schools across the nation. stenographic court reporters. The Wisconsin Lawyer.  court’s order reflects Wisconsin’s see FAQs on page 37 Law Libraries assist lawyers, public, judges By Carol Hassler uestions and requests for assistance Qarrive quickly at the Milwaukee and Dane County Law Libraries. “How do I file for divorce?” “I need a restraining order.” “I’m being sued and need to file an answer (whatever that is).” “I want to see my kid more often.” Located in the two largest courthouses in the state, these small libraries make a big impact. Managed by the Wisconsin State Law Library since the late-1990s, the county branches provide streamlined book collections and expansive online research sources that are available for everyone to use A researcher works at the Milwaukee County Law Library, which supports the – not just members of the public, but also work of judges, attorneys, self-represented litigants and the public. judges, court employees, and attorneys. Library staff, along with other court staff, can’t give legal On any given day, library staff at these busy branches advice. However, helping library users find research field questions from hundreds of users, many of them materials is a big component of the job. Each library has a navigating the courthouse and court system for the first core collection of Wisconsin primary law materials, plus time. Staff assist pro se users, or self-represented litigants, in attorney and pro se-oriented books to help experts and locating standard court forms, as well as sample forms and novices alike. information about court actions and legal issues. see Law Library on page 36 Excellence Award, forherexceptional contributiontothe expanded toabout100, White said. of peoplewithseriousmentalillness. minute Justice Institutepostedatwo- treatment community, tohelp identifyandaddresstheneeds involving teammembersfromacrossthejusticesystemand Milwaukee Countyhascreateda“systemwithinsystem,” and JusticeChallengeproject. MacArthur Foundation’s Safety the JohnD.andCatherine T. as a“ChampionofChange”by Maxine A. White wasrecognized government,” White said. government,” White responsibilities asacriminaljusticesystemand doing abetterjob–humaneofourcaretaking recognitions inrecentmonths. of awards,honorsand Circuit Court,receivedavariety A. White, MilwaukeeCounty mental illness. interventions,” particularlyasitrelatestopeoplewith approach to“front-end broad-based, cross-discipline explaining MilwaukeeCounty’s recognition, awards Chief JudgeWhitegathers sculpture waspreviously displayedatthe Wisconsin that Minerbelieved Wisconsin possessed. The original her remarks. 2019 has“Forward”asitsinspiration,” Roggensacksaidin appropriate thatthe Wisconsin State Capitolornament for Amendment totheUnitedStates Constitution,itis Wisconsin’s June10,1919ratificationofthe19th steps attheState Street entrance. of theoriginalworkislocatedatfootCapitol 1865 inMenashaandgrewuptheMadisonarea. A replica originally createdbyJeanPondMiner, whowasbornin right tovote. ratification ofthe19th Amendment, whichgavewomenthe Forward ornament. unveiling ceremonyofthe2019 Wisconsin State Capitol W unveiled at conference press ‘Forward’ ornament 2019 Capitol On Oct.2,2018, White receivedthe Commitmentto The projectstartedwithabout15casesandhasnow On Dec.10,2018,thePretrial Late lastyear, ChiefJudge Thanks largely toaMacArthurFoundation grant, “Rethinking jailsisnotjustacoinedphrase.It’s about First Judicial Administrative DistrictChiefJudgeMaxine Forward isanallegory ofdevotionandprogress, qualities “As wemeettodaytocelebrate the centennialof The ornamentisatributetoForward,thebronzesculpture Presented bythe Wisconsin Historical Foundation, AWARDS Roggensack wasamongspeakersattheJune10 isconsin SupremeCourtChiefJusticePatienceDrake video interview the ornamenthonors100thanniversaryof of White White Chief JudgeMaxine A. in 1992andhasbeenelectedfivetimessince. County) since2008. White wasfirstappointedtothebench as deputychiefjudgeoftheFirstDistrict(Milwaukee over approximatelysevencommitteemeetingsperyear. Committee ofChiefJudges. The committeechairpresides serve as“thechiefofthechiefs,”orChair Club indowntownMilwaukeeonOct.12. award waspresentedduringaceremonyatthe Wisconsin group’s 25th Annual ColumbusDay Awards Banquet. The Award bythe Wisconsin JustinianSocietyofLawyersatthe at theItalianCommunityCenterinMilwaukee. the MilwaukeeCountySheriff’s Departmentataluncheon citizens ofMilwaukeeCounty. The awardwaspresentedby of casesinvolvingchildreninneedprotection.Healso reorganized thejuvenilecourt processandthemanagement exemplary leader. Throughout histenureonthebench,he Evenson’s award. Court JudgeGuyD.Reynoldssaidinanarticleannouncing extraordinary judicialservice,”retiredSaukCountyCircuit the bench. outstanding, long-termjudicialserviceduringtheirtimeon high idealsandpersonalcharacter, anddemonstrates recognizes ajuristwhoisfairandimpartial,demonstrates Bar CommitteeLifetimeJurist Award. The award received theprestigiousState Barof Wisconsin Benchand Evenson named‘LifetimeJurist’ supported restorationprojects aroundthe Capitol. Amendment. 26, 1920,when three-fourths ofthestatesratified the19th faced setbacksin Wisconsin beforefinalapprovalon August Women’s suffrage, which Forward isdedicatedto tightly tothe American flag. left armandhandhold raised ingreeting,andher remains today. headquarters, whereshe State HistoricalSociety moved tothe Wisconsin bronze statue,Forwardwas weather ontheoriginal Chicago. Columbian Expositionin 1893 World’sFair Women’s Memorialandat Before becomingachiefjudgein2015, White hadserved Last summer, White’s fellowchiefjudgeselectedherto Also inOctober, White receivedtheJuristof Year Evenson isknownbymanyasamentortojudgesandan “It’s timetoacknowledge[Evenson’s] 30-plusyearsof Retired SaukCountyCircuitCourtJudgeJamesEvenson Since 2004,the proceeds fromornamentsaleshave Forward hasherrightarm Due totheeffects ofthe 2019 Capitolornament see Awards on page 20 

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Spring/ Court interpreter certification program marks Summer 2019 15th year with recognition awards THE THIRD BRANCH By Carmel Capati, Office of Court Operations n May 4, court interpreters from around the state Ocelebrated the 15th year of a court interpreter certification program with an awards ceremony at the 6th Annual Ramp UP the Conversation Interpreter and ISP Conference hosted by Bilingual Training Consultants in Johnson Creek. All court interpreters in attendance were presented with certificates of appreciation, while the interpreters who had reached the 15-year milestone also received a scales of justice lapel pin marking their commitment to equal language access to the courts. In 2004, the first group of Wisconsin court interpreters obtained their certification by passing a rigorous oral performance exam, which was the culmination of efforts to improve language services by a cohort of judges and court staff that began in 1999. This group, which included retired Court of Appeals Judge Richard S. Brown and retired Milwaukee County A number of awards were presented May 4 during a ceremony Circuit Court Judge Elsa C. Lamelas, as well as retired marking the 15th year of Wisconsin’s court interpreter certification District Court Administrator Gail Richardson, laid the program. foundation for interpreter certification through the Left to right: Retired Circuit Court Legal Advisor Marcia Vandercook; establishment of a Code of Ethics in Supreme Court Director of State Courts Randy R. Koschnick; American Sign rules and creation of a court interpreter program. Language interpreter Debra Gorra-Barash, ASL interpreter; and At the ceremony, awards were presented to Director retired Trempealeau County Circuit Court Judge John Damon, of State Courts Judge Randy R. Koschnick; retired former chair of the Committee to Improve Interpreting and Trempealeau County Circuit Court Judge John Damon, Translation in the Wisconsin Courts. former chair of the Committee to Improve Interpreting for their dedication to the courts and encouraged individuals and Translation in the Wisconsin Courts; Debra Gorra- who were pursuing certification to complete the process Barash, ASL interpreter; and Marcia Vandercook, retired because of the continued need for quality interpreting. legal advisor in the Office of Court Operations. The awards were adorned with a quote by Ralph Waldo The awards acknowledged each recipient’s role in Emerson, honoring the collective efforts of all court system “establishing and upholding the high standards that leaders who have worked throughout the years to improve guarantee language access in our diverse communities.” language access services to Limited English Proficient Gorra-Barash and Vandercook were part of the original individuals: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead group that helped establish certification testing. where there is no path and leave a trail.”  Koschnick expressed his appreciation to the interpreters

Chief Justice Patience Drake Roggensack, accompanied by Justice Daniel Kelly, discusses the role of courts with new legislators as part of the Wisconsin Legislative Council’s New Member Institute Dec. 5 in the Supreme Court Hearing Room. Chief judges honor Chief Justice Roggensack judgeshonorChief Chief pilot program,adatawarehouse,the with establishingacommercialdocket pack,” White said. pack,” White nationally tothe“middleof Wisconsin from41stranking and workedtirelesslytobring judicial compensationasapriority judiciary’s strengthandprogress.” issues andprogramscriticaltoour supported andcheeredanumberof Roggensack hasled,cajoled, the lastthreeplusyears,ChiefJustice Patience DrakeRoggensack.During leader andourfriendChiefJustice a commendationtoouroutstanding bestow andextendspecialthanks represent Wisconsin’s judiciaryaswe Court, toldthegatheringofjudges. White, MilwaukeeCountyCircuit District ChiefJudgeMaxine A. and FirstJudicial Administrative become morethanyouarecapableof,”CommitteeChair Grand GenevaConferenceCenterinLakeGeneva. the chiefjusticeonstagewithallofjudgesat accomplishments onbehalfofthe Wisconsin Judiciary. with abronzeeagleinappreciationofherworkand Supreme CourtChiefJusticePatienceDrakeRoggensack A Chief JusticePatience DrakeRoggensackpresents theState of theJudiciarySpeech Wisconsin Judicial ConferenceinLakeGeneva. White alsocreditedthechiefjustice The chiefjusticeestablished “We aresoveryhonoredto The eaglesymbolizesthecourageto“reachhigherand Chief JudgeJames A. Morrisonpresentedthesculptureto Committee ofChiefJudgespresented Wisconsin t the2018 Wisconsin JudicialConference,the Judicial Excellence bronze eaglestatue andreddesignerthrowblanket. Judicial Conferenceafter beingpresentedbytheCommitteeofChiefJudgeswitha Chief JusticePatienceDrakeRoggensackaddressesjudgesatthe2018Wisconsin during the designer redthrowblanket. Roggensack waspresentedwiththesculpture,aswella today forheroutstandingleadership,” White saidas at thistime. We oweheradebtofgratitude andcelebrateher Chief JusticePatience“Pat”DrakeRoggensackasourleader programs, andevidence-baseddecision-making. expansion ofstatewideeFiling,drugcourttreatment Conference. educational session atthe2018Wisconsin Judicial Reserve judges gather foraCCAP presentation duringan “We areveryfortunateandwehonored,tohave 

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Spring/ WISCONSIN CONNECTS Summer 2019 On June 25, Chief

THE THIRD BRANCH Justice Patience Drake Roggensack, Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, and Justice Rebecca Frank Dallet visited with a group of women judges from the country of Georgia as part of an international leadership program. The visitors also met with judges in Milwaukee.

In Dublin, Judge Hanrahan presents on American Criminal Justice Chief Judge William E. Hanrahan, Dane County Circuit Court, was among featured speakers at The Bar of Ireland’s legal education program on “Irish & American Rule of Law,” held May 30 in Dublin. Hanrahan presented on the “American Criminal Justice System” before a standing room only crowd of judges and barristers at the Bar’s headquarters. Several Irish Judges, including Court of Appeal Judge John A. Edwards, president of the Association of Judges of Ireland, also presented. Hanrahan said his hosts made him feel at home in Dublin, during both educational programming and social events. The hospitality may stem from Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireleand, which states, in part: “… the Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with Chief Judge William E. Hanrahan, Dane County Circuit Court, people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its poses for a photo while visiting the Honorable Society of King’s  Inns while in Dublin in May. The society is the Ireland’s oldest cultural identity and heritage.” law school and provides professional legal education and training.

Judge Zuidmulder picks up new The next day, they biked 30 miles and discussed Richardson’s photography work on homelessness, migrant ‘mate,’ stories, on bike tour issues and drug addiction in Eastern Europe. In 2016, Last summer, when Brown County Circuit Court Judge Richardson won photo of the year from World Press Photo Donald R. Zuidmulder chose to make his semi-annual solo award for a photo of a baby being passed under a razor-wire bike trip from Prague, through Vienna, to Budapest, his fence from Serbia into Hungary.  family insisted he could not ride alone. He would need to either join tour groups or hire a guide. Zuidmulder said he hired a guide in Prague (Czech Republic) and started off with a 50-mile ride. He joined groups and took shorter rides near Vienna (Austria). But when he got closer to Budapest (Hungary), he couldn’t find a group or a guide at a bike rental location. While he was having a conversation with staff there, a guy with a heavy Australian accent, standing six feet away offered to serve as his guide. “We struck a deal and off we go, visiting sites,” Zuidmulder said. Then, the guide said he has a friend who teaches aeronautical engineering and asked Zuidmulder if he wanted to see some Soviet aircraft. Zuidmulder agreed. “Next thing, there I am sitting in the seat of a Mig 21 and touring helicopter gunships,” Zuidmulder said. Zuidmulder reported he became “good mates” with the Judge Donald Zuidmulder, Brown County Circuit Court, sits guide, who turned out to be Warren Richardson, an in the cockpit of a Mig 21 Russian fighter jet during a stop internationally acclaimed freelance photographer. near Budapest, Hungary, while on a bicycle tour of Eastern Europe. 9

OBITUARIES Spring/ Summer Judge Richard G. Greenwood Associations and even served as president of the Outagamie 2019

Bar Association from 1972 to 1973. THE THIRD BRANCH Brown County CIrcuit Court Nelson was elected Calumet County Circuit Court Judge Judge Richard G. Greenwood, and served from 1980 to 1992. He served terms as both who was retired from the Brown Deputy Chief Judge and Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial County Circuit Court, died July Administrative District during his time on the bench. 1, 2018 at age 90 due to When Nelson retired in 1992, he continued to serve the complications of Parkinson’s court system as a reserve judge and mediation and disease, according to an obituary. arbitration practitioner for ten years. During his retirement, Greenwood was born in Green Nelson enjoyed traveling extensively with his wife, Jean. Bay on Nov. 4, 1927. While he He enjoyed reading, was an historian, and spent much time worked to achieve his caring for his long-time Lake Winnebago lakeshore commission of Naval Officer at property. He is survived by three children, three the U.S. Naval Academy, grandchildren, and a great granddaughter. Greenwood won the Intercollegiate Boxing Judge Richard G. Championship for his weight Greenwood Judge Vincent K. Howard class. He was graduated from the Marathon County Circuit Court Judge Vincent K. Howard academy in 1949 and attended the U.S. Naval Flight School Jan. 19, from complications due to in Pensacola, Florida, where he “earned his wings.” Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy, Greenwood was a veteran of the Korean Conflict and flew according to an obituary. 299 carrier landings during his military career. On one Howard was born in 1947 and mission, he is credited with saving a Royal Air Force pilot grew up in the Wausau area. He and crew from a remote island near Greece. attended the University of Wisconsin Greenwood later returned to Wisconsin to attend Marathon County before going on to Marquette University Law School and graduated in 1958. receive his bachelor’s degree from He served as assistant district attorney for Brown County the University of Wisconsin in and as Green Bay’s City Attorney. He was appointed by Madison. Soon after, Howard earned then-Gov. Martin J. Schreiber, to serve as circuit court judge his law degree at Marquette that included Brown, Kewaunee and Door Counties in 1977. University Law School, and upon He was re-elected to the Brown County Circuit Court graduation, he moved back to bench until his retirement in 1997. During his 20 years on Judge Vincent K. Wausau for private practice. Howard the bench, Greenwood presided over the first DNA case in Howard was appointed circuit court the State of Wisconsin and was a member of the Wisconsin Judge in Marathon County and served in that role for 30 Civil Jury Instruction Committee. years. During that time, he presided over some of Marathon In his retirement, Greenwood enjoyed traveling, stamp- County’s most infamous cases. In 1989, he oversaw the collecting, playing the harmonica, and story-telling. case trial of Chris Jacobs, the man accused and acquitted of Greenwood is survived by his wife of 54 years, Carol, his murdering five members of the Kunz family in their four children, four grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. farmhouse in Athens. Howard also presided over the trial of Dale and Leilani Neuman, a Weston couple who prayed for healing rather than seeking lifesaving medical treatment for Judge Hugh F. Nelson their diabetic daughter in 2008. Calumet County Circuit Court In 2013, Howard retired from the bench. He enjoyed Judge Hugh F. Nelson, Calumet County Circuit Court, being a member of both the Noon Kiwanis Club and the died on Aug. 11, 2018 at age 91. Elks Lodge and was a lifetime member of First United Nelson was born in Kaukauna in 1927. Upon graduating Methodist Church in Wausau. high school, he enlisted in the US Navy and was sent to According to his obituary, Howard is survived by his wife Westminster College in Fulton, of 47 years, Judy, his siblings, and nieces and nephews. Missouri to participate in a program for navy pilots. After serving in Guam, Nelson was Judge Gerald C. Nichol honorably discharged. He Dane County Circuit Court returned to Wisconsin to attend St. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Gerald C. Nichol died Norbert College in DePere and on March 17, 2019. went on to study at the University Nichol was born and raised in Michigan’s Upper of Wisconsin and UW Law Peninsula. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree from School. the University of Michigan, he served in the U.S. Army Nelson graduated and began to from 1957 to 1959. His time in the army included practice law in Appleton in 1953 assignment in the White House Army Signal Agency. and remained there until 1979. He Nichol attended law school at the University of Wisconsin Judge Hugh F. Nelson was an active member in the and received his Juris Doctor in 1963. Wisconsin, American, Outagamie County, and Calumet County Bar see Obituaries on page 36 10

Spring/ Summer Law Day events bring students, courts 2019 together through outreach THE THIRD BRANCH Editor’s note: Each year, counties throughout Wisconsin Anderson presided. celebrate Law Day by connecting with students through a The trial itself was a slightly modified version of a real variety of events, such as mock trials and discussions. Here jury trial. Therefore voir dire, as well as opening statements, is a compilation of activities reported to The Third Branch: closing statements, and jury instructions were abbreviated, but the general flow was the same as a real criminal jury Bayfield County trial. After the close of the case, the 12 student jurors Law Day connects students with real-life scenarios deliberated and came back with verdicts of guilty on all On May 3 in Bayfield County, the circuit court, together counts. with the Bayfield At the conclusion County District of the trial, the Attorney and local students sat in on State Public real bail hearings Defender, invited conducted by video students from area from the county jail, high schools to affording them the participate in a mock opportunity to see jury trial. This year, what the initial more than 75 phase of a criminal students from case is like. Then, Drummond, the students were Washburn and given an opportunity Bayfield high schools to ask questions of attended. the judge, The clerk of circuit District Attorney Kim Lawton, right, and Public Defender William Appleton, left, prosecutor and court’s office participate in Bayfield County Law Day mock trial. To the far right are some of defense counsel. student jurors, and in the gallery are teachers and students from Drummond, compiled the names Bayfield and Washburn High Schools. The student jurors of the students took questions also attending and used that list of names as a juror pool from about how they came to their decision. Bayfield County which a jury is selected. This year’s mock trial was based Sheriff Paul Suseinka provided the students with on a real fact situation that occurred in Bayfield County, information about careers in law enforcement and took involving possession of methamphetamine and bail jumping. questions. Many questions posed by the students were District Attorney Kim Lawton arranged for local law insightful and led to a great discussion. All of the schools’ enforcement from the State Patrol, City of Washburn Police representatives indicated that it was a positive learning Department and Bayfield County Sheriff’s Departments to experience for the students. play the role of the state’s witnesses, while Atty. Courtney The court system in Bayfield County has been hosting Latzig and Atty. William Appleton from the public student-based law day events for more than ten years and defender’s office played the roles of defendant and defense will continue to work with local high schools to provide counsel. Bayfield County Circuit Court Judge John P. such teaching opportunities, so that students have a better understanding of our American justice system.

Buffalo County Buffalo County celebrated Law Day on May 14th with fourth and fifth grade students participating in several events. Clerk of Circuit Court Roselle Schlosser, with her deputies, Ashley Henthorn and Julie Vollmer, and Adam Sticht, Assistant District Attorney, with Mackenzie Dregney, Victim-Witness Coordinator, led groups of students through the events. A mock jury trial was held in the courtroom on the case of “State of Wisconsin vs. Woody from Toy Story.” The students played the parts of the defendant, victim, district attorney, defense attorney, circuit court judge, clerk of circuit court, bailiff, witnesses, and jurors. This gave the students the Washburn Police Chief Ken Johnson plays the role of an analyst from opportunity to be part of a court process and see how the Wisconsin Crime Lab during Bayfield County’s Mock Trial. In the each part plays a role in a jury trial. background of this photo, taken from the bench by Bayfield County A “Law Day Trivia” challenge was included in the Circuit Court Judge John P. Anderson, are some of the high school students who were selected as jurors. see Law Day on page 16 presentation, which Gasiorkiewicz as aresource. Legal RightsandResponsibilities” know about Wisconsin Law-Your publication “Whatyoushould State Barof Wisconsin’s high-school curriculum,usingthe worked withschoolstodevelopa Schools Daniel Thielen and Gasiorkiewicz contactedChiefof literacy?’” similar approachtopromote‘legal topic, hethought,“whynottakea District (RUSD)wasgoingtoteachfinancialliteracyasa W represented, thatindividuallibertyinterestsareprotected, payments. district attorneysandincreasedcircuitcourtsupport rate, theconsortiumalsosupported,fundingforadditional the InsideTrack wrote. private barattorneyswhotakeonpublicdefendercases,” judges andlawyersworkedtogetherontheratepaidto together. As anexample,henotedthataconsortiumof the properfunctioningofcourtsystemandmustwork County, saidlawyersandjudgesdepend uponeachotherfor InsideTrack efficiently, accordingtoanarticlepublishedintheBar’s bar inworkingtogethertoensurethecourtsystemoperates Meeting andConferenceinGreenBay. on June12,thefirstdayofactivitiesatBar’s Annual addressed theState Barof Wisconsin’s Board ofGovernors Racine judges promote legal literacyinschools legal Racine judgespromote Governors during the Bar’s Governors duringtheBar’s Annual MeetingandConventionJune12inGreenBay. Director ofState Courts, JudgeRandy R.Koschnick,addressestheState BarBoardof The resultisaone-hour The ideacaughton. “The changeswillhelpensurepartiesarewell- In additiontoanincreaseintheprivatebarreimbursement “Koschnick, aformercircuitcourtjudgeforJefferson Koschnick discussedthecommongoalsofbenchand Director ofState Courts,JudgeRandy R.Koschnick, NEWS AND NOTES Gasiorkiewicz foundouttheRacineUnifiedSchool hen RacineCountyCircuitCourtJudgeEugene A. newsletter. Judge Eugene A. Gasiorkiewicz PowerPoint presentation. contact Gasiorkiewiczforinformation andaofcopythe educate highschoolstudents.” sitting circuitjudgeswouldtake thetimeandeffort to administrative staff ofRUSDhavebeenimpressedthat Gaziorkiewicz said.“Thestudents, teachersand Judge Wynne P. Laufenberg. Judge Timothy D.Boyle,JudgeDavid W. Paulson,and said. civil “pitfalls,”astheyageintoadulthood,Gasiorkiewicz the Bar’s 44-pagebooklet. Case andPark.Inaddition,studentseachreceivedacopyof presented atthethreehighschoolsindistrict,Horlick, and otherRacineCountyCircuitCourtjudgeshave to agroupofeightparticipantsinthe rural partsofthestate. lawyers toconsiderpracticingin like toseemoreyoungandaspiring Grant CountyCircuitCourt,would and JudgeCraigR.Day, bothof Governors. Independent newspaper. saying bytheGrantCountyHerald law area,” VanDeHey wasquotedas has ledtoasituationwherebythe stop inLancasterlastfall. Wisconsin Initiative,whichmadea State Barof Wisconsin’s Greater Any judgeinterestedinpresenting theprogrammay “The feedbackandstudentresponsehasbeengreat,” Other judgeswhopresentedaspartoftheprograminclude The bookforewarnsstudentsofpotentialcrmininaland That’s themessagetheydelivered Chief JudgeRobertP. VanDeHey “The realcrunchisinthecriminal A shortageoflawyersinthearea see News andNotes

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Spring/ Election continued from front page Summer appointed in 2007. She was elected in 2008 and re-elected court race, Atty. Steve M. Cain 2019 in 2014. Before joining the Court of Appeals, she worked in defeated Atty. Angela C. Foy for

THE THIRD BRANCH private practice for 18 years and had clerked for U.S. the Branch 2 bench in Ozaukee District Court Judge Barbara Crabb. She is a 1987 graduate County. Cain will replace Judge of the University of Chicago Law School. Joseph Voiland, who did not seek re-election. COURT OF APPEALS Prior to his election to the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Jennifer E. Nashold of bench, Cain was in private Madison was elected without a challenger to the District IV practice and served as Mid Court of Appeals to replace retiring Judge Paul Lundsten, Moraine Municipal Court Judge effective Aug. 1 (See story, page 3). from 2009-2019. He also served Nashold has been an ALJ for the state Division of as President of the Wisconsin Hearings and Appeals since 2011. She previously served as Municipal Judges Association for Judge-elect Steve M. chief legal counsel for the state Department of Children and two years. Cain earned both his Cain Families and as general counsel for the Wisconsin Public Bachelor’s and Juris Doctorate at Service Commission. Prior to that, she served as a Marquette University. commissioner and chair of the Wisconsin Tax Appeals In Marquette County, District Commission. Nashold began her law career as a prosecutor Attorney Chad A. Hendee, who and served as assistant attorney general in the state did not face a challenger, was Department of Justice from 1998 to 2004. elected to replace retiring Judge She is a 1993 graduate of the UW Law School. Bernard “Ben” Bult (See Court of Appeals judges Mark D. Gundrum, District II, retirements, page 3). Hendee was and Lisa K. Stark, District III, were unopposed in their bids first appointed district attorney in for re-election to new six-year terms. 2011, elected in 2012 and re- Gundrum, a former Waukesha County Circuit Court elected in 2016. judge, was first appointed to the Court of Appeals in 2011 Hendee told the Portage Daily and was elected in 2017. He served as a representative in Register, “I’m very excited for the Judge-elect Chad A. the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1999 to 2010 and is a opportunity to move up to the Hendee Judge Advocate General Officer, United States Army bench… It’s been a career goal of Reserve. mine. I’m taking it very seriously. I want to do a good job Stark was first appointed in 2013, elected that same year, doing it.”  and re-elected in 2019. Before being appointed, Stark was an Eau Claire County Circuit Court judge from 2000 to Below is a list of circuit court judges who were re- 2013 and worked in private practice from 1982 to 2000. elected without challengers. Brown County CIRCUIT COURTS Judge Tammy Jo Hock Marinette County Twenty-six Wisconsin circuit court Judge Timothy A. Judge James A. Morrison judges were re-elected throughout the Hinkfuss state on April 2, and three new Milwaukee County judges will take office in Marquette, Dane County Judge David C. Swanson Milwaukee and Ozaukee counties on Judge Rhonda L. Lanford Judge William S. Pocan Aug. 1. Judge Laura A. Crivello Just two incumbents faced Dodge County Judge Audrey K. challengers: Racine County Circuit Judge Joseph G. Sciascia Skwierawski Court Judge Jon E. Fredrickson defeated Atty. Jamie M. McClendon Jefferson County Monroe County Judge Jon E. for the Branch 7 bench; and, in Judge William V. Gruber Judge Todd L. Ziegler Fredrickson Milwaukee County, Atty. Danielle L. Judge William F. Hue Shelton defeated incumbent Judge Racine County Andrew A. Jones for the Branch 40 La Crosse County Judge Maureen M. bench. Judge Ramona A. Martinez Shelton is a U.S. Army Veteran Gonzalez who worked in finance prior to her Judge Elliott M. Levine Rock County career as a litigator. She was a Judge Todd W. Bjerke Judge Derrick A. Grubb Senior Law attorney with Legal Judge Scott L. Horne Judge Daniel T. Dillon Action Wisconsin and most recently worked as an assistant state public Lincoln County St. Croix County defender. Shelton received her Judge Robert R. Russell Judge Edward F. Vlack bachelor’s degree from UW- Milwaukee and her law degree from Manitowoc County Waukesha County Marquette University Law School. Judge Mark R. Rohrer Judge Michael O. Bohren Judge-elect Danielle L. In the only other contested circuit Shelton Judge Brad Schimel Milwaukee Countycelebrates AdoptionDay courtrooms.” the adoptionsof19childreninto15foreverfamiliesintheir Skwierawski andJ.D. Watts, whocollectivelypresidedover David Feiss,ChristopherFoley, Lindsey Grady, Audrey Donald andjudgesGwendolynConnolly, LauraCrivello, Division ofMilwaukeeCountyCircuitCourts,” White said. their staffs andcollaborativepartners servingintheJuvenile transformational workandthatofourentireteamjudges, so verygratefulforDeputyChiefJudgeM.JosephDonald’s children inourcommunity. an awesomegiftoflove,devotionandsacrificetothe Court, welcomedthefamiliesandthankedthemforgiving Youth andFamilyJusticeCenter. hosted an Adoption Daycelebrationatthe Vel R.Phillips E set for Sept. 25-27 in Wisconsin Dells set for Sept.25-27inWisconsin Conference onChildWelfare andtheCourts strategies toimplementintheircommunity. Continuing supervisors. Eachcountyandtribewillhavetimetodevelop guardians adlitem),andchildwelfaredirectors officers, attorneys(prosecutors,adversarycounsel, multidisciplinary team,whichwouldinclude:judicial than 450peopleareexpectedtoattend. practices toachievetimelypermanenceforchildren.More forum forstate,county, andtriballeaderstolearninnovative Department ofChildrenandFamilies. The eventservesasa Improvement Program(CCIP)andthe Wisconsin T Wisconsin Dells. be heldonSept.25-27,2019,attheKalahariResortin continued fromfrontpage Chief Justice operate smoothly andefficiently. administrators to ensurethecourts state courts,chiefjudgesandother with fellowjustices,thedirector of Court. procedures adoptedbytheSupreme administrative authoritypursuant to the judicialsystemandexercises Court istheadministrativeheadof the chiefjusticeofSupreme (3) ofthe Wisconsin Constitution, Appeals from1996until2003. as ajudgeonthe Wisconsin Courtof Supreme Court,Roggensackserved “This morningwewitnessedtheawesomeworkofJudge “It istrulyaspecialdayforallofusinMilwaukee.Iam Chief JudgeMaxine A. White, MilwaukeeCountyCircuit Participants areencouragedtoattendasa The conferenceissponsoredbytheChildren’s Court In thisrole,thechiefjusticeworks Pursuant to Article VII, Section4 Awareness Month.OnNov. 16,MilwaukeeCounty ach year, NovemberisrecognizedasNational Adoption Working Together toEffectuateTimely Permanence he Conference onChildWelfare andtheCourts:   Goyke, whocaptured themomentonhissmartphone camera. Goyke isthesonofcourtsystem LegislativeLiaisonNancyRottierandGary (D-Milwaukee) duringaceremony intheSupremeCourtHearingRoomonJan.7. Justice RebeccaFrankDalletadministers theoathofofficetoRep.EvanGoyke, , will Chief JudgeMaxine A. White. (holding aProclamationfromformerGov. ScottWalker), and Eloise Anderson, DeputyChiefJudgeM.JosephDonald Secretary ofthestate Department ofChildrenandFamilies, CCIP Program Analyst, assoonpracticable: should contactKristen Wetzel, registering fortheconference practice areas. will beorganized intofour leadership. Workshop sessions responsiveness, andjudicial treatment courts,cultural engagement, childwelfare child stability, family attorneys, andsocialworkers. education creditswillbeoffered forjudicialofficers, [email protected] Judicial officers interestedin Presentations willaddress or (608)264-6905. 

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Spring/ Abrahamson continued from front page Summer the advancement of opportunity for women in the legal Abrahamson’s friend and colleague, Justice Ann Walsh 2019 profession, Ginsburg said. Bradley, praised Abrahamson for a remarkable 43 years of THE THIRD BRANCH “As a lawyer, law teacher and judge, she has inspired service. Bradley has served with Abrahamson since Bradley legions to follow in her way to strive constantly to make the was first elected to the Court in 1995. legal system genuinely equal and accessible to all who dwell “She started this journey on this Court in 1976,” Walsh in our fair land,” Ginsburg said. Bradley said. “Just imagine: At that time, not only was she Former Gov. Jim Doyle, who served as Wisconsin the only woman justice, and the first woman justice on the Attorney General before becoming governor, recalled Wisconsin Supreme Court, she was the only woman judge arguing cases before the Supreme Court with Abrahamson in the state – the entire state of Wisconsin.” on the bench. Abrahamson responded simply with the words “thank “You better get to the point, you better have thought you” to a standing ovation from those who had attended the through what you had to say, and you weren’t going to argument. waste her time,” Doyle said. Abrahamson was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Abrahamson spoke briefly, emphasizing the importance of Court by then-Gov. Patrick J. Lucey in 1976. She won election in 1979 and re-election three times. She will have completed her fourth 10-year term when she retires July 31. Abrahamson served as chief justice from 1996 to 2015 and was the first woman justice and first woman chief justice of the Court. Abrahamson is estimated to have written 530 majority opinions, 490 dissenting opinions, 325 concurring opinions, according to statistics compiled by Marquette University History professor Alan Ball and published in Wisconsin Lawyer. Before being appointed, Abrahamson was in private practice in Madison for 14 years and was a professor at the UW Law School. Born and raised in New York City, Justice Abrahamson received her bachelor’s degree from NYU in 1953, her law degree from Indiana University Law School in 1956, and a doctorate of law in American legal history photo credit Tatiana Shiraski photo credit Tatiana in 1962 from the UW Law School. U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pays tribute via video She is the recipient of 16 honorary doctor recording to retiring Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson during a state Capitol ceremony of laws degrees and the Distinguished June 18. The event was sponsored by UW Law School, Marquette University Law School and the State Bar of Wisconsin. Alumni Award of both the UW-Madison and Indiana University-Bloomington. She is a an independent judiciary. fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences and “From the day I took the oath of office, I believed in the the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected concept of an independent judiciary. I still believe in it. I member of the American Philosophical Society. In 2004, she hope you do as well,” Abrahamson told the crowd in the received the American Judicature Society’s Dwight D. Rotunda. She attended the event with her son, Daniel, his Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. In 2009, the wife, Tsan and their son Moses. National Center for State Courts awarded her the Harry L. U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Diane Sykes, 7th Circuit, Carrico Award for Judicial Innovation, for serving as a who served on the Wisconsin Supreme Court with national leader in safeguarding judicial independence, Abrahamson from 1999 to 2004, said she always improving inter-branch relations, and expanding outreach to appreciated Abrahamson’s well thought out and challenging the public. In 2010, the American Bar Association awarded legal arguments. her the John Marshall Award in recognition of her “The strength of her work always made mine better,” said dedication to improving the administration of justice. Sykes, who was appointed to the federal bench by former Abrahamson is a past president of the National President George W. Bush. Conference of Chief Justices and past chair of the board of Sykes cited numerous decisions written by Abrahamson directors of the National Center for State Courts. She also that had a significant impact on the development of the law has served on many national and state boards councils and and legal theory. commissions.  On May 15, the Wisconsin Supreme Court took a few minutes after its final oral argument of the term to recognize Abrahamson. County CircuitCourt. Circuit Court),andChiefJudgeJamesMorrison,Marinette Atkinson and Tammy JoHock(bothofBrownCounty The EighthJudicialDistrictisservedbyJudges William M. William J.Dominaservein Waukesha CountyCircuitCourt. business disputesfairlyandexpeditiously. management practicesbestsuitedforresolvingsubstantial and disputeswithcommerciallitigants’ desiretotailorcase intended toleveragejudicialexpertiseincommerciallaw with minimalimpactonthebalanceofcourtoperations.Itis within theframeworkofexisting Wisconsin courtsystem environment. The commercialdocketisdesignedtooperate rate ofchange,andneedsthemodernbusiness T secondyearapproaches inoperation DocketCommercial pilotproject State LawLibrarian, Julie (Tessmer) Robinsonis“piped U.S. Navyduringaceremony on board,”orretiredfromthe held intheSupremeCourt Hearing RoomonDec.1, Patience DrakeRoggensack 2018, withChiefJustice looking on.Mostrecently before retiring,Robinsonheld the rankofCommandMaster Chief, ReserveComponent JAG LawProgram,Judge Advocate General’s Corps. During her23yearsofservice, Robinson didtoursofdutyin Bahrain, Kuwait,Iraq,Italy, Latvia andRomania asa Officer. Legalman Master ChiefPetty The CommercialDocketPilotProject(CDPP)hasbeenin Judges MichaelJ. Aprahamian, MichaelO.Bohrenand docket thataccommodatestheincreasingcomplexity, he commercialcourthasbeenprovidingaspecialized Commercial DocketPilotProjectcanbefoundonthe docket. The newprocessandmoreinformationaboutthe Districts tohavetheircasestransferredintothecommercial jointly petitioningthechiefjudgesof Third andEighth Waukesha andtheEighthJudicial Administrative Districtby large claimandcommercialcasesincountiesoutside concluded. docket, andthirty-onecaseshavebeensuccessfully are currentlytwenty-ninecasespendinginthecommercial Waukesha Countyandtwenty-threeinDistrictEight. There have beenfiledinthecommercialdocket,thirty-seven operation foralmosttwoyears. As ofMay2019,sixtycases tm). (https://www.wicourts.gov/services/attorney/comcourtpilot.h website In April, theCDPP expandedtheprojecttopartiesfiling  Hove, PierceCounty. County CircuitCourt,SheriffNancy Judge JohnM. Yackel, Sawyer Juneau CountyBehavioralHealth; County CircuitCourt;JoAnnGeiger, Judge Stacy A. Smith, Juneau County CriminalJusticeProgram; County; DianeMcNamer, Sawyer Court; SheriffDougMrotek,Sawyer Mary Kelly, PierceCountyOWI Boles, PierceCountyCircuitCourt; Juneau County;JudgeJosephD. left toright:SheriffBrentOleson- The Wisconsin contingent included, meth andheroininrural America. together todiscusstheimpact of representative fromsixstates Department of Agriculture, brought of Justice Assistance andtheU.S. The workshop,fundedbytheBureau Supreme CourtofOhioinColumbus. workshop held April 1-3atthe country whoparticipated ina were amongthosefromaroundthe sheriffs andtreatmentproviders A groupofruralWisconsin judges, CDPP photo credit Mary Arvidson

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Spring/ Law Day continued from page 10 Summer events. Students were divided into teams and given life activities including jail tours, mock trials, question-and- 2019 lines. They were asked questions about Wisconsin laws and answer sessions with judges, and introductions to various THE THIRD BRANCH about local government. specialties of the sheriff’s department, including the K-9 Deputy Nic Scholl conducted a presentation with his unit, dive team and SWAT. canine unit “OWEN” and described equipment in his squad Students also got to engage in a law-related trivia contest. car. Students also got a close look at a highway truck and Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Ben Brantmeier learned a bit about how the roads and bridges are welcomed the students, noting that Law Day is a nationwide maintained. observance established by President Dwight Eisenhower in The fourth grade students were invited to enter a poster 1958 as “a day of national dedication to the principles of contest and the fifth grade students were invited to enter an government under law.” essay contest. The themes for the contests varied between He said in Jefferson County, it has been a tradition for “Be a Buddy, Not a Bully,” “How Students Can Make a nearly a quarter-century, exposing children to the Positive Change in Their Community”, and “Free Speech, fundamental freedoms and responsibilities they have under Free Press, Free Society.” The essays and posters were the United States government, and applying that displayed at the courthouse for the public to review. The understanding on a county level. honorary judges of the contests were Mrs. Sandra Ebert and Brantmeier highlighted the First Amendment, the Mrs. Edith Ruff. Fourteenth Amendment and the Universal Declaration of Long time reserve Judge Gary B. Schlosstein addressed Human Rights. the students with comments on the services our local Law Day provides an opportunity to reflect on those government provides at the courthouse and the laws that freedoms, he said, while renewing our commitment to the each agency is required to follow to keep our community rule of law and the Constitution. safe. He also spoke on the importance of our rights and the Participating schools included St. Henry’s Catholic School need to preserve them. of Watertown, St. John the Baptist Catholic School of Jefferson, St. Joseph’s Cathlolic School of Fort Atkinson, Dunn County Cambridge Elementary School, St. Paul Lutheran School of Dunn County hosted three different schools for Law Day. Lake Mills, and East, West and Sullivan elementary schools Clerk of Circuit Court Katie M. Schalley presented to the from the School District of Jefferson. students an overview of the judicial system in Dunn County One of the highlights included a mock trial in which and the City Police Department presented about law students played the roles of judge, witnesses, prosecuting enforcement’s role in the criminal justice system. attorney and defense attorney for a case based on the characters and events of a familiar fairy tale. Jefferson County Hundreds of area elementary students filled the Jefferson Monroe County County courtrooms, peered behind bars in the jail and 2019 Student Government Day in Monroe County learned about various aspects of the law at the county’s Law included participation of about 80 eighth-graders from Day on Friday. Cashton, and on another day, about 80 more from the The 24th annual event, featuring the theme “Free Speech, Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton elementary school, Brookwood. Free Press, Free Society,” was coordinated by the Jefferson They heard presentations from the court, bailiff, court County Clerk of Courts, corporation counsel, sheriff’s reporter, the district attorney’s office, and the public office, and attorneys from the Jefferson County Bar defender. They also heard presentations from other branches Association. of county government. Government Day is held annually in Taking part were some 290-plus fourth- and fifth-graders Monroe County, with sponsorship from the Sparta American from public and parochial schools across the county, with Legion. 

Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Drake Roggensack swears in newly elected or re-elected state senators during a ceremony in the Senate Chambers in January. 17

Appointments continued from page 2 Spring/ Schimel earned his law degree undergraduate degree from Carroll University. Summer at UW Law School and his Judge Paul C. Dedinsky was appointed to the Milwaukee 2019 undergraduate degree at UW- County Circuit Court on Dec. 26, 2018 to fill the vacancy THE THIRD BRANCH Milwaukee. He was elected to a left by retired Judge Mary M. Kuhnmuench. six-year term on April 2. Prior to his appointment, Dedinsky served as an assistant Judge Maureen M. Martinez district attorney for Milwaukee was appointed to the Racine County which was preceded by a County Circuit Court on Dec. 14, number of years in private practice. 2018 to fill the vacancy left by Most recently, Dedinsky served as the retirement of Judge Emily S. the Chief Legal Counsel for the Mueller in October. Wisconsin Department of Martinez previously served as Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Racine County District Attorney Protection. Judge Brad D. Schimel and as an assistant district Dedinsky holds an undergraduate attorney. degree from Creighton University, a Martinez represented the office on the statewide Drug law degree from UW Law School, Endangered Child Committee and served as an office and a PhD from Cardinal Stritch representative on the county’s Child Death Review, the University. Judge William V. Gruber Multidisciplinary Team, the Sexual Assault Response Team, Judge Daniel J. Gabler was the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, the Juvenile Justice appointed to the Milwaukee County Coordinating Committee, and the Juvenile Alternative to Circuit Court on December 26, 2018 Detention Initiative. to replace retiring Judge Richard J. Martinez has an undergraduate Sankovitz (see story, page 3). degree from St. Mary’s College Gabler served as the chairman of of Notre Dame, a Master’s the Wisconsin Parole Commission degree from the University of since March 2017. Prior to that Illinois, and a law degree from position, Gabler served as an Marquette University Law assistant district attorney in School. Milwaukee County for over 17 years. Judge Derrick A. Grubb was He also was a compliance officer at appointed on June 21, 2018 to Goodwill Industries and a public fill the vacancy on the Rock affairs manager at Time Warner Judge Paul C. Dedinsky County Circuit Court created by Cable. the retirement of Judge R. Alan Judge Maureen M. Gabler received his law degree Bates. Martinez from Marquette University Law Prior to his appointment to the School and his undergraduate degree Rock County bench, Grubb worked in private practice and from Creighton University was the general manager at Beloit Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, Judge Scott J. Nordstrand was Inc. He also previously served as a Guardian ad Litem in appointed to the St. Croix County Rock County for four years. Grubb also served as a Circuit Court on Jan. 2 to fill the member of the Office of Lawyer Regulation District 12 vacancy left by retired Judge Eric J. Committee. Lundell. Grubb holds an undergraduate degree from Western Nordstrand previously practiced as Illinois University and a law degree from Marquette a commercial litigation attorney in University Law School. federal and state courts of Alaska. Judge William V. Gruber was appointed to the Jefferson He served as Deputy Attorney Judge Daniel J. Gabler County Circuit Court on June 21, 2018 to fill the vacancy General for the Civil Division in the left by the retirement of Judge Alaska Department of Law, Chief Jennifer L. Weston. Deputy to the Alaska Attorney Gruber previously served as General, and briefly as the Acting Watertown City Attorney and Alaska Attorney General. He was worked in Dodge County as appointed Alaska’s Commissioner for assistant corporation counsel. the Department of Administration Gruber is a volunteer member of before moving back to Wisconsin, the board of directors for People where he most recently worked in Against Domestic Abuse of private practice. Jefferson County. He has also Nordstrand holds an undergraduate been a board member and degree from the UW - River Falls volunteer attorney for the and a law degree from the University Judge Scott J. Women’s Center of Waukesha — of North Dakota School of Law.  Nordstrand Crisis Prevention. Judge Derrick A. Grubb Gruber was graduated from Marquette University Law School and holds an 18

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Drake Roggensack makes opening remarks during the Court’s Justice on Wheels visit to Sparta on Oct. 12, 2018. he Wisconsin Supreme Court marked the 25th year of review only cases that present novel legal questions of Tits Justice on Wheels outreach and education program statewide importance. by holding oral arguments in three cases at the Monroe Also as part of Justice on Wheels, the Supreme Court County Justice Center on Oct. 12, 2018. sponsored a civic education contest, involving a creative About 250 people, including 150 high-school students project for local fifth graders. from Sparta and Tomah, listened to lawyers present the Monroe County is the 29th county outside Dane where the legal reasons they feel the Court should decide in their Court has held arguments since Justice on Wheels began in favor. Arguments were held in the Branch 4 courtroom. 1993. “We greatly appreciate the hospitality of the people of Since 1993, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has held Monroe County and everyone who made our visit a success, arguments in the following counties: Brown, Eau Claire, including county and circuit court officials and staff, the Marathon, Milwaukee, La Crosse, Douglas, Rock, Kenosha, Sheriff’s Department, the Sparta Police Department and the Sauk, Dodge, Oneida, Outagamie, Portage, Racine, Fond du Monroe County Bar Association, among others,” said Lac, Walworth, Waushara, St. Croix, Winnebago, Iowa, Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Drake Washington, Columbia, Green, Sheboygan, Waukesha, Roggensack. Grant, Bayfield, and Jefferson. Before each argument, an attorney member of the local More than 10,000 people have witnessed or participated bar association discussed with the audience the role of the in Justice on Wheels. The proceedings attract a standing- courts in interpreting the law, the process used to decide a room-only crowd.  case, and the legal issues involved. The Court accepts for

Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler presents the first place civics education contest award to Gus Supreme Court Justices mingled and dined with members of the Monroe County Tripp of Meadowview Intermediate School Bar Association during a luncheon at the Monroe County Justice Center during during an opening ceremony of the Supreme the Justice on Wheels visit. Court’s Justice on Wheels visit to Sparta. Administrative District,whichincludes Brown,Door, the workofcircuitcourtsstatewide,” shesaid. elected in2008andre-elected2014.DistrictFive being appointedin2007.Hewas County CircuitCourtsincefirst Hanrahan hasservedontheDane County CircuitCourtlastyear. Daley, whoretiredfromtheRock former ChiefJudgeJamesP. to filltheremainderofterm previously appointedchiefjudge as chiefjudge.Hanrahanwas Court, tohisfirsttwo-yearterm Hanrahan, DaneCountyCircuit appointed ChiefJudge William E. chair theCommitteeofChiefJudges,effective Aug. 1. C Waushara counties. Sheboygan, Winnebago,and Lake, Manitowoc,Marquette, Chief Judges Hanrahan Chief JudgeWilliam E. Morrison to head Committee of Chief Judges Chief toheadCommitteeof Morrison Chief JudgeJames A. Morrison Morrison ischiefjudgeoftheEighth Judicial Morrison willreplaceoutgoingcommitteechair, Chief In DistrictFive Circuit Court,waschosenbyhisfellowchiefjudgesto hief JudgeJames A. Morrison,MarinetteCounty continued frompage 2 , theCourtre- Circuit Courtin1998,waselected leadership teamandhelpsguide crucial partofouradministrative appointed toGrantCounty counties. VanDeHeywas court ofBuffalo andPepin who servedthecombinedcircuit retired JudgeJamesJ.Duvall, fill theremainderofterm appointed chiefjudgein2016to Circuit Court.Hewasfirst P. VanDeHey, GrantCounty re-appointed ChiefJudgeRobert counties. Lafayette, Rock,andSauk includes Columbia,Dane,Green, Committee ofChiefJudgesisa Drake Roggensack.“The Court ChiefJusticePatience role,” said Wisconsin Supreme Morrison ashestepsintothe working withChiefJudge committee, andIlookforwardto leadership ofthisvital Judge White forherskillful one-year termatthepost. Court, whoiswrappingupa Milwaukee CountyCircuit Judge Maxine A. White, In DistrictSeven “I wouldliketothankChief Hart Key Chief JudgeBarbara , theCourt been re-electedfourtimes. Circuit Courtin1992.Shewaselected in1993,andhas 2019. White wasfirstappointedtotheMilwaukeeCounty 2015 andwasre-appointedtotwo-year termsin2017and (Milwaukee County).Shewasfirst appointedchiefjudgein judge oftheFirstJudicial Administrative District commercial docketpilotprogram. statewide whohandlecasesinthe Wisconsin courtsystem’s Examiners. Morrisonisoneofsixcircuitcourtjudges Judicial Conference,andisformerchairoftheBoardBar Committee, theexecutiveandlegislativecommitteesof said. to helpkeepthecircuitcourtsrunningsmoothly,” Morrison colleagues, andIwillrelyontheirknowledgesupport in privatepractice. and re-electedin2019.Hepreviouslyworkedasanattorney Court in2012.Hewaselectedtoasix-yearterm2013 counties. Kewaunee, Marinette,Oconto,Outagamie,and Waupaca chief judges,canbefound information aboutchiefjudges,includingalistofallcurrent addition tohandlingadministrativematters.More chief judgesandtheirdeputiesmaintaincourtcalendarsin District, wherethechiefjudgeisafull-timeadministrator, importance. committee toaddressadministrativeissuesofstatewide administrators, chiefjudgesmeetthroughouttheyearasa District Ten Court B. Huber, MarathonCountyCircuit D. Boyle,BarronCountyCircuitCourt District Nine Court Morrison, MarinetteCountyCircuit District Eight Court Rossell, KenoshaCountyCircuit District Two serving aschiefjudgesinclude: judge. up tothreetwo-yeartermsaschief appoints chiefjudgeswhomayserve Richland, Trempealeau,and Vernon counties. Jackson, Juneau,LaCrosse,Monroe,Pepin,Pierce, includes Adams, Buffalo, Clark,Crawford,Grant,Iowa, in 1999andhasbeenre-electedthreetimes.DistrictSeven White willcontinuetoserveonthecommitteeaschief Morrison servesontheSupremeCourtFinance “I amhonoredtohavebeenselectedforthisrolebymy Morrison wasappointedtotheMarinetteCountyCircuit With theexceptionofFirstJudicial Administrative Working asateamwiththeirdeputiesanddistrictcourt Other circuitcourtjudgescurrently The SupremeCourtappointsorre- : ChiefJudgeMaureen : ChiefJudgeJason A. : ChiefJudgeGregory : ChiefJudgeJames A. here  .  VanDeHey Chief JudgeRobertP.

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Spring/ AWARDS continued from page 5 Summer 2019 enhanced the education Law Center in Washington, D.C. He for lawyers seeking to spent time at a small firm before THE THIRD BRANCH serve as guardians ad deciding to found his own solo practice. litem and was involved “When I started my own practice, I in the Criminal Justice did a little bit of everything,” Dwyer Coordinating Council told the State Bar. “I learned I didn’t get for Sauk County. much satisfaction from litigating. I “Judge ‘E’ as he was found it to be an inefficient way to often called, exhibited a resolve disputes.” high level of integrity, Dwyer was elected to the Milwaukee compassion, and County Circuit Court in 1997 and in fairness on the bench. 2001 was assigned to family court. It He is one of the finest was there, he discovered his passion. judges I’ve known,” “With that assignment I found —

retired Columbia County photo credit Shannon Greem, Bar of Wisconsin State almost accidentally — that family law Circuit Court Judge Retired Judge James Evenson received the Lifetime suits my temperament and is the kind of Alan J. White said. Jurist Award from the State Bar of Wisconsin during the work that I love. The family court is a Bar’s Annual Meeting and Conference June 13 in Green After graduating from Bay. place where a judge can do the most to UW-Madison with a help people solve their problems, social work degree, Evenson attended UW Law School. provided we establish an efficient basis,” Dwyer said. Evenson graduated in 1973 and began his practice in As a family court judge, Dwyer became concerned with a Baraboo until he was prompted to run for an open seat on number of challenges, especially meeting the needs of the the Sauk County Circuit Court bench in 1986 and was increasing number of parties in family court who decide not elected. This new position came with a lot of changes. to hire lawyers. This led him to serve on two Supreme “I went from multiple client contacts each day to sitting Court Committees including one which allowed family law alone in an office or speaking with people from a distance lawyers to act neutrally and draft and file legal pleadings on in the court room. That was quite an adjustment,” Evenson behalf of both parties. said. “This rule is a national trend setting approach to help Evenson served as the presiding judge in Sauk County for address the needs of the growing numbers of self- more than 25 years. He served on numerous committees represented litigants in family court. It will help families including the Planning and Policy Advisory Committee and courts,” Susan Hansen, a family lawyer and one of (PPAC), the Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee and was those who nominated Dwyer said. the Chief Judge of the Sixth Judicial District for eight years. Not only did Dwyer’s work help to improve parties’ Evenson serves as a reserve judge and private mediator, access to affordable legal assistance, he also proved and still takes time to mentor others. His advice for new instrumental in reorganizing the court-connected custody lawyers entering the courtroom: “Be prepared and know and placement mediation program in Milwaukee. He is also your case,” he said. “The theatrics displayed by lawyers is currently engaged in a pilot project to demonstrate the value never as important as the substance of what they say.” of custody studies in an effort to obtain funding to support Evenson was acknowledged for his accomplishments at them. the State Bar Annual Meeting & Conference in Green Bay Dwyer received his award at the Member Recognition on June 13. Celebration in Green Bay on June 13.

Bar recognizes Dwyer as ‘Judge of Judge Yang recognized with UW the Year’ Alumni Association Award Milwaukee County Circuit In February, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Court Judge Michael J. Dwyer Kashoua “Kristy” Yang was recognized with a “Forward was named the recipient of the Under 40 Award” from the Wisconsin Alumni Association. 2019 Judge of the Year award by Yang is recognized as the nation’s first Hmong American the State Bar of Wisconsin Bench judge elected without appointment, and the first Hmong and Bar Committee. According to American female judge. She is a 2009 UW Law School the State Bar’s website, the graduate and was elected to the Branch 47 bench in 2017 prestigious award honors a circuit after working in private practice and for a non-profit legal court judge who has enhanced the services provider. judicial system by his or her “Running for elected office was far from Yang’s first leadership in advancing the challenge in life… Born in a refugee camp in Thailand, she quality of justice, judicial was seven when her family moved to Sheboygan, education, or innovative programs. Wisconsin,” the association reported in its On Wisconsin Born and raised in Milwaukee, Judge Michael J. Dwyer magazine. Dwyer received his undergraduate “While her parents worked in factories and raised 11 degree in political science from UW-Madison and returned to his hometown after attending Georgetown University see Awards on page 29 21

Office of Research and Justice Statistics Spring/ Summer created to ‘harness the power’ of data 2019 THE THIRD BRANCH he Wisconsin Court System has a new Office of analyzes statistical data, reviews academic and legal reports TResearch and Justice Statistics (RJS). This three-person and consults with court personnel and researchers in partner team started as a unit within the Consolidated Court justice system agencies. Automation Programs (CCAP) in August 2018 and, as of Previously, she was a consultant assistant and technical April 2019 became an independent office under the Director writer at an emergency personnel selection consulting firm, of State Courts. RJS was created to allow the courts to producing exams and assisting in administering assessment harness the power of vast internal and external data centers that tested police officers, firefighters, and resources to conduct research that would inform judicial emergency service personnel for selection and promotion policy initiatives. It also seeks to make data more accessible opportunities across the United States. Terranova also and actionable for judges and court personnel through the worked on an array of projects during her years interning at development of a justice data warehouse in partnership with the Chicago Transit Authority. These projects ranged from other government agencies working in the justice system. constructing training certification curriculum for warehouse Initial projects have focused on examining judicial outcomes industrial machinery operators to aiding in the creation and by population subgroups and for child welfare, evaluating implementation of an organization- statistics about Wisconsin courts published by external wide performance appraisal program. organizations, and building data sharing and research Terranova received her bachelor’s relationships with state and local agencies. degree in psychology and economics Michael F. Thompson was hired in August 2018 to lead the at North Central College and is unit, followed more recently by the hiring of a research currently completing her Ph.D. in analyst and data engineer: Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Roosevelt University. Michael F. Thompson She specializes in advanced research methodology, multi-level statistical Director of Research and Justice modeling, and survey construction. Statistics Michael F. Thompson leads the Office of Research and Shaily Barjatya Justice Statistics. He works closely with judicial leaders, Kacie Terranova court personnel and external justice system partners to Data Engineer design and implement research and create a justice data Shaily Barjatya joined the Court warehouse that will allow the court system to gauge its System in February as the Data Engineer for the Office of effectiveness towards evidence-based judicial policy. Research and Justice Statistics. With the goal of moving Previously, he was a professor at the University of North toward evidence-based research and evaluation of court Texas and Grinnell College where he taught undergraduate initiatives, her main role is to design and maintain the new and graduate courses in sociology, research methods and justice data warehouse, based on data from CCAP and from statistics. Thompson has also served as a research associate other state and federal sources. She will also work to and economic research analyst at the Indiana University develop tools and dashboards to help court staff respond to Kelley School of Business inquiries and requests for working on economic and information about the courts and workforce development projects justice system. funded by the U.S. Department of Barjatya holds a master’s degree in Labor and the Economic Information Technology from the Development Administration. His University of North Carolina at published research appears in Charlotte, specializing in data Social Indicators Research, science and advanced data and Economic Development Quarterly, knowledge discovery. Prior to that, the Edward Elgar Handbook on she spent over four years at DXC Social Capital and Regional Technology (India) as a business Development, and Indiana intelligence developer and data Business Review. He holds a analyst. She worked on team projects performing data cleaning Shaily Barjatya bachelor’s degree from Yale Michael F. Thompson University and a Ph.D. in and data modeling towards creating a sociology from Indiana University Bloomington. data warehouse and was responsible for developing executive level dashboards and reports.  Kacie Terranova Research Analyst Kacie Terranova joined the Office of Research and Justice Statistics in November 2018. In order to develop, write and present research for judicial initiatives, she prepares and 22

Spring/ RETIREMENTS continued from page 3 Summer 2019 experience to bring the reality of how these situations play wife, Jessica, but she stayed strong. Fortunately I have out in practice into what is far too often a theoretical fared better in USA today polls,” Bates said. THE THIRD BRANCH environment,” Sherman said. Perhaps to help new judges avoid Nancy Grace’s list, For Sherman, the work behind writing certain opinions Bates offered this advice, “Respect everyone even if they do was most satisfying. not appear to deserve respect, and then recognize that you “Our particular job is to follow established law. have more power in your community than you think you Sometimes that means that solving the problem presented by do.” a case is like figuring out a puzzle. Those are the most Bates believes his retirement plans are “typical.” interesting opinions to write,” Sherman said. “I will play with the grandchildren, kayak, bike and ski Looking back at changes that took place during his career, more, probably drive my wife crazy, attend a Brewers World Sherman said the amount of money involved in judicial Series, and see more of this beautiful world,” Bates said. elections throughout the country has become disheartening. As Sherman moves on into retirement, he encourages new Judge Bernard ‘Ben’ N. Bult judges to strive to be sound in both heart and mind: “In Anatomy of a Murder, Justice Voelker writes that there Marquette County Circuit Court are four kinds of judges. Some judges have good minds, Marquette County Circuit others have good hearts, some have neither and some have Court Judge Bernard Bult will both. If you are a defendant and you don’t have the retire July 31 at the end of his privilege of a judge with both a good head and a good heart, term after serving seven years on you are better off with a judge with a good heart than one the bench. with only a good mind.” During his time as a judge, Bult often presided over family court, including many adoptions. Judge R. Alan Bates “The only case type I enjoyed Rock County Circuit Court hearing is adoptions. While the “I will miss the people who commit their careers and road to adoption can be fraught talents to making Rock County a better place for everyone,” with difficulty when judgement Rock County Circuit Court Judge R. Alan Bates said upon is rendered I almost always felt his retirement August 2018. like I had just planted a seed that Judge Benard N. Bult Bates was a private practice attorney in Janesville from was sure to grow and prosper,” 1975 until he was first elected to the Rock County Circuit Bult said. Court in 2004. He was re-elected in 2010 and 2016. Adoption hearings were not the only part of the job that Over the years, Bates noted he experienced both inspiring made Bult proud. He also enjoyed getting to know the folks and trying moments. One particular he worked with and establishing good relationships with case that stood out in Bates’ mind them. when looking back on his career “I was able to develop an affinity with the staff. When involved a pair of twin girls who had disagreement occurred, I was very proud of the fact that the been taken into custody by Child Circuit Court (especially the Clerk of Court’s office) offered Protection Services. the public a pathway to understand and participate in a legal “The children looked more like system that provided a result for them that was understood newborn children than one year olds. as fair,” Bult said. The termination case went to a jury As Bult looks back at his career on the bench, there are trial and a contested disposition, but moments and cases that he will remember for a long time. A two years later I was able to preside particularly difficult placement hearing proved to be one of over the adoption of beautiful three- those moments. year-old girls by their new parents. “I had encouraged the parents to consider the fact that Judge R. Alan Bates Guests at the adoption included the their children wanted to believe that they had the best mom social worker and police officer who and dad in the world, and recommended they consider the initially took the children into custody,” he said. impact of their conduct on their children’s opinion of them. There are a few things Bates is proud of accomplishing I reminded them that they will always be mom and dad in while serving Rock County. First of all, Bates said people their children’s eyes and they needed to communicate and who have not gotten what they wanted from him still often cooperate to make that viewpoint be a positive one,” Bult thank him for how their case was handled. Second, Bates said, “…a grandparent that had been in the audience stood mentioned the dedicated team of professionals and up at the end of the hearing and commended me for community volunteers he worked with to create a Rock standing up for the kids’ interests over the parents.” County Trauma Task Force, a group that still works While he has planned a near future of restoring cars in his tirelessly to improve the lives of many people. collection and spending time with his grandchildren, Bult While Bates had many accomplishments as Rock County will probably be put to work during his retirement. Circuit Court Judge, one moment he isn’t particularly fond “My wife owns a catering company. She has a vast of came early on in his career. number of assignments that have been neglected. We are “Nancy Grace of Headline News named me one of the still negotiating my salary…” Bult said. worst judges in America. It was a difficult time for my see Retirements on page 23 community,” Constantinesaid. strength ofitsjudiciary. It’s veryimportanttothe hard. Racinehasbeenveryluckyovertheyearswith including hisco-workers. experience onthe bench,andoffered someadvice to new local grocerystore. easy. in whichtwomenshopliftedlobsterstheirpantsfroma Branch there’s achanceputtingupwithhimwasnotalways day trialinacaseinvolvinganexplodingairbagandanother decades. Those thatstickoutinhis memoryincludea16- them...” them togoforwardinlifeandfeelthatsomebodylistened people mighthave,youputsomethingtogethertoallow although youarenotgoingtoresolvealltheproblemsthese not ajury. You aredealingwithfamiliesthathaveissuesand told newsreporter Alyssa Mauk“It’s just,youandthere’s over thelast19years,andheacknowledged to The Third Clark CountyCircuit Court first andlastrotationwereinfamily/probatecourt. criminal, felony, traffic/misdemeanor, andjuvenile.Bothhis courts: family/probate,civil, each ofRacineCounty’s five Constantine hasheardcasesin the RacineCountyCourthouse, Krohn. Constantine, Christensenand at hisfather’s lawfirm: practiced lawprivatelyinRacine his timeasajudge,Constantine Wheeler, whoretired.Priorto in 1996toreplaceJudgeNancy be fullyengaged.” people’s lives…andyouhaveto said, “You aredealingwith should bedone. This isaveryimportantjob,”Constantine of notbeingabletodothejobstandardthatIthinkit wasn’t asengagedIusedtobe,andwasintheprocess September 2018wastherighttimeforhimtoretire. Court, saidhewasthankfultoeveryone heworkedwith told theRacineJournal Times ofhiscareer. Racine CountyCircuitCourtJudgeCharlesH.Constantine keep coming,overandagain,yougetworndown,” waves don’t seemtohaveanyimpactatall,butasthewaves Michigan, withwavesbrushingupagainstyou. At first,the Judge JonM.Counsell Racine CountyCircuitCourt Judge CharlesH.Constantine “All mycolleaguesareverysmart,andtheywork Upon retirement,Constantinesaidhewillmissalot, Counsell summarized someofhisthoughtsabout his Constantine hasheardhisfairshareofcasesinovertwo “In familycourt,youhavealotofdiscretion,”Constantine Over thecourseofhiscareerat Constantine waselectedjudge “I justfeltlikeIwasstartingtolosemyfastball. Following 22yearsonthebench,Constantinedecided “To me,it’s likeyouareanicerockontheedgeofLake Retired JudgeJonM.Counsell, Clark CountyCircuit RETIREMENTS continued frompage 22 Constantine Judge Charles remarks appearhere: judges, amongothers,for The Third Branch. A portionofhis bench in2005. Morey, whoretiredfromtheBuffalo and Pepincounties opposition, beforebeingappointed tosucceedJudgeDaneF. 1985. Hewaselectedtothatposition tentimeswithout serve asBuffalo andPepinCountiesDistrict Attorney in judge, Duvallwasappointedby then-Gov. Tony Earlto in July2018.Beforebecominga bench, retiredattheendofhisterm Judge JamesJ.Duvallsaid. and PepinCountyCircuitCourt touched inapositiveway,” Buffalo seeing ordinarypersons’ lives decision-making. Myrewardwas life changedbylearningbetter for themorwhenyouseesomeone’s and leavewithasolutionthatworks get toseetwosidesenterconflict cases, butthelittleones,whenyou Buffalo/Pepin Counties Judge JamesJ.Duvall • • • • • • • • • • • One ofthemost importantthingsJudgeDuvalllearned on Duvall, whospent13yearsonthe “My favoritecasesarenotthebig better clotheswheneverwegoout. remember thatmywifealwaystellsmetoputon many timesanditalwayscomesoutfine.But I havethrownmy“drycleanonly”robeinthewasher will –thankthemonceinawhile. get farmoreflakfromupsetpeoplethanajudgeever The ClerkofCourt,yourjudicialassistantandstaff are thesamesodon’t treatthem thatway… No twocasesareeveralike.peopleincourt are oftendisappointed. better. Peoplethatexpectclosureattheendofacase “Judges donothaveamagicwandtomakeeverything once inawhile. Sitting onthebenchisnotexercise—getupandmove pessimist. in manythings.Lookforthegood.Itisnofunbeinga There ishumorinalmosteverything. There issadness more badones. good intentions,andmany The roadtojailispavedwith words. Actions speaklouderthan Bad peoplecandogoodthings. Good peoplecandobadthings. but thosethatare—reallyare. few peoplethataretrulyevil, make badchoices—thereare There aremanypeoplethat some witnesseswillsay. perhaps notstrangerthanwhat anything youcanimagine.But Truth isstrangerthanfictionor You can’t makeitup,butmanywilltry. see Retirements Judge JamesJ.Duvall Judge JonM.Counsell on page 24

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THE THIRD BRANCH Schlosstein, now a reserve judge. have to be lonely if you treat them like family,” Foster said. “[He] taught me to never forget that, to the persons in Foster has some big plans for retirement including an front of you, theirs is the most important case in the world,” Alaskan cruise. Duvall said. “I plan an “encore career” in meditation, working more as One of the things he’s most proud of accomplishing on the a Master Gardener Volunteer, going on a mission trip with bench is not administrative or a decision, but learning more the youth of my church, several home improvement projects, about people. and of course, travel,” Foster said. “Surprisingly… my time on the bench has increased my belief that there is good in everyone. People do hurtful things; people can be so self-defeating. Not everyone does Judge William M. Gabler, Sr. change, but I strongly believe people can change. My job Eau Claire County Circuit Court has been to try to find out how to provide an opportunity for Eau Claire County Circuit Court change. If I didn’t believe in people’s ability to do better, I Judge William M. Gabler, Sr. don’t think I could have done this job,” Duvall said. retired on July 31, 2018 after 19 In his retirement, Duvall plans to go to language school to years on the bench. In 1999, improve his Spanish skills and, hopefully “I will find my Gabler was appointed by then- new passion for service,” Duvall said. Gov. Tommy G. Thompson. According to an article by Judge Kathryn W. Foster WQOW-TV in Eau Claire, Gabler spent his last day of work hearing Waukesha County Circuit Court a full docket of cases before After 30 years on the bench, officially hanging up his robe. Waukesha County Circuit Court A WQOW reporter asked Judge Kathryn W. Foster retired Gabler about his biggest in July 2018. Judge William M. challenge during his time on the Gabler, Sr. When looking back on her bench. career, Foster noted that she had “Too little time to think, too little time to reflect, too little many stand out cases, including time to do legal research because of the huge increases in one involving a young man who the caseloads,” Gabler said. still visits her in Waukesha Gabler saw a recent uptick in the number of cases over annually. which he presided. He told WQOW he believes the “I will always remember a increases are driven by the methamphetamine crisis, which young man facing a waiver continues to have a great effect on Wisconsin and across the petition for several counts of entire nation. delivery of controlled substances Judge Kathryn W. Foster While all judges face criticism at some point or another in being heard after he had turned their careers, most try not to let comments on social media 18,” Foster said, “He became enrolled in a faith-based or letters to the editor get under their skin. Gabler said he treatment program while the matter was pending.” isn’t bothered by negative remarks. The director of the program spoke with Foster to convince “(People) don’t have a full picture of what we have to do. her the young man was committed to his recovery and she We have to take into account a whole wide variety of decided not to waive him. things,” Gabler said, “The things we have to take into “Not only did the young many graduate from the two-year account are the need to protect the public, a person’s program, he went on to serve 20 years in the Air Force rehabilitative needs and to respond to the seriousness of the including several tours of duty in the Middle East. He is a offense. We look at these three factors through the lens of a great reminder of why giving someone a second chance is person’s character.” often the best decision a judge can make.” Foster said. In his retirement, Gabler has plans to travel and spend Along with this stand out case, Foster is proud of more time with his family. WQOW notes he also is numerous accomplishments she has made during her time as considering volunteer work for helping former inmates find circuit court Judge in Waukesha County. jobs. “I am most proud of my work in treatment courts and the fact that so many judges are now enjoying the same kind of personal satisfaction that can be felt when you observe first- Judge Patrick C. Haughney hand the transformation graduates of the various programs Waukesha County Circuit Court can make when they obtain long term sobriety,” Foster said. Judge Patrick C. Haughney, retired from the Waukesha While she looks forward to retired life, Foster says there County Circuit Court on Nov. 6, 2018, after serving 22 years are a few things about the job that she will be sad to leave as a judge and 16 years as an assistant district attorney in behind. Waukesha County. “What I will miss most are my colleagues and support “It is with profound satisfaction that I write to advise you staff. There are some wonderful people serving as judges all that after 38 years of public service… I will be resigning around the state. I am so happy to call many of them friends. I also think the support staff in Madison and in my see Retirements on page 25 design andimplement anumberofsignificantchanges tothe was pleasedtobe abletoworkwitha“terrific” team to District One(Milwaukee County)ChiefJudge. Kremers career wasn’t acase,buttheopportunitytoserveas Kremers said. has broughtthemtocourt,” well beyondthespecificissuethat going onwiththesetwopeople, challenge ustounderstandwhatis criminal, juvenile,orfamilyand every typeofdocket,civil, judges tohear. They showupon among themostdifficult for domestic violence. that involvedallegationsof meaningful workwasoncases cases, butsomeofhismost intensive case-by-casereview.” data thatisnowavailable,unlessyouconductedalabor have accesstoanywhereneartheamountofinformationand biggest changes,”Kremerssaid.“WhenIstartedwedidnot court systemsincehebecameajudge. serve onanewlycreatedPardon Advisory Board. Gov. Tony Eversappointedhimasoneofeightmembersto role until2015. Judge oftheFirstJudicialDistrictin2008.Heservedthat practice. Hewaselectedin1992andappointedChief district attorneyinMilwaukeeCountyandwasprivate will missmostinhisretirementfromthebench. they arefamily,” Kremerssaidwhen askedaboutwhathe miss themall. They arenotjustco-workers andfriends, administrators, toeveryoneintheDirector’s Office. Iwill the courtsystem,fromjudgestoclerks,reporters Court JudgeJeffrey A. Kremersretiredin August 2018. Milwaukee CountyCircuitCourt Judge Jeffrey A. Kremers School. Marquette UniversityLaw earned hislawdegreefrom elected threetimes.Haughney circuit courtin1996andre- retirement. District whenheannouncedhis Judicial the Third Administrative Court anddeputychiefjudgeof of Waukesha CountyCircuit Scott Walker onSept.11, 2018. wrote inalettertoformerGov. from thebench,”Haughney Kremers saysthemostmemorable partofhisjudicial “Domestic violencecasesare Kremers heardhundredsof “The additionofcomputersandCCAP areeasilythe Kremers saidhehasobservedagreatdealofchangeinthe Kremers remainsactiveinthejusticesystem.OnJune13, Before becomingajudge,Kremersservedasassistant “We havesomeincrediblydedicatedpeopleworkingin After 26yearsonthebench,MilwaukeeCountyCircuit Haughney waselectedtothe Haughney waspresidingjudge RETIREMENTS continued frompage 24 Haughney Judge PatrickC. Judge Jeffrey A. Kremers wants toread,andcontinueteach. to spendmoretimewithfamily, playbadgolf,readwhathe judge colleaguesintheprocess.” around thestateandhelpedcraftinstructionsformytrial wits withsomeincrediblybrightandtalentedjudgesfrom experience Ihadin25yearsonthebench.gottomatch the CriminalJuryInstructionCommittee. based decisiontoarisk-basedsystem,”Kremerssaid. of pretrialreleaseandmonitoringtomovefromacharge- court system. worked in,even more. miss thepeoplesheworkedwith, andthebuildingshe to theirchildren,”Kuhnmuench wrote. past theirownanger, andhonestly seewhattheyweredoing in thefamilycourt,particularly when parentscouldn’t see times atthepoorbehavioroflitigants time onthebench,shesaid. open aboutthoseshefacedduringher challenges, andKuhnmuenchwas Wisconsin JudicialConference. of theExecutiveCommittee Judges Association andasamember president ofthe Wisconsin Trial she didonbehalfofjudgesas Domestic Violence Courtforfive.” Family Courtforsevenyearsand bench asthePresidingJudgeinboth and inthatregard,Iservedwelloverhalfmytimeonthe helping familiesnavigatethedifficult timesintheirlives, violence court,”shesaid.“…Iwasmostpassionateabout large andsmallclaims,aswellfamily courtanddomestic gun court,generalfelony, misdemeanor, civilcases,both Court. in everyassignmentdivisionexceptChildren’s she isproudof,butespeciallyofhavingserved courthouse eachnight,”Kuhnmuenchwrote. north” andholdyourheaduphighwhenyouleavethe colleagues, itistoalwayskeepyourcompasspointed“true her career, Kuhnmuenchoffered hercoworkerssomeadvice. for morethan20years. As shespenttimelookingbackon “work family”thatitwasnotaneasydecision. retirement whichoccurredonJan.4.Kuhnmuenchtoldher Court JudgeMaryM.Kuhnmuenchannouncedher Milwaukee CountyCircuitCourt Judge MaryM.Kuhnmuench Now thathehasofficially retired,Kremerssaysheplans “It waseasilythemostchallengingandrewarding Kremers alsosaidhethoroughlyenjoyedhistenyearson “I amveryproudofthechangeswemadetoprocess While shewillmissherdutiesas judge,Kuhnmuenchwill “I waschallengedandfrustratedat Being ajudgedefinitelyhasits She alsoissatisfiedwiththework “I presidedoverhomicidesandsexualassaults,drugcourt, In theyearsshespentasjudge,Kuhnmuenchhasmuch “If Imightoffer anywordsofretrospection tomy Kuhnmuench servedonthebenchinMilwaukeeCounty In alettertohercolleagues,MilwaukeeCountyCircuit see Retirements Kuhnmuench Judge MaryM. on page 26

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Summer RETIREMENTS continued from page 25 2017 “I’ll miss my staff including my court reporters, my D. Reynolds offered to new judges as he retired from the

THE THIRD BRANCH bailiffs, and deputy court clerks who were incredibly bench at the end of July 2018. gracious in their service to me…The Milwaukee County Over the last 18 years, Reynolds has heard his fair share Courthouse truly is a microcosm of society at large and it of all different types of cases, but he favored presiding over brings all of these very different and diverse people together criminal cases. in a place that at its best, helps people resolve their disputes “I was simply more in a humane way.” comfortable processing these Kuhnmuench looks forward to traveling and spending types of [criminal] cases given time with family before returning to the classroom and my early experience as a higher education in some capacity because of her love of prosecutor and later defending teaching and mentoring. According to her letter, she also persons charged of crime,” “will serve as a reserve judge when needed, perform a Reynolds said. “Of course every wedding or two, and finally learn how to the play the drums type of case is of utmost so I can get good enough to bang away on one song with the importance to the parties and, likes of Sheryl Crowe or Carole King!” mindful of this, every type of a case is a favorite.” Judge Emily S. Mueller Looking back on his career, Reynolds says there are definitely Racine County Circuit Court cases that he will never forget. Judge Guy D. Reynolds After 26 years on the bench, Racine County Circuit Court One of the more memorable cases Judge Emily S. Mueller still loved her work, but a couple involved a criminal prosecution of a farmer under things changed her perspective, according to an article in administrative code provisions regulating the distribution of The (Racine) Journal Times in October. unpasteurized milk. The case came to be known as the “In the last year or two, I’ve lost a number of friends “Raw Milk” case and it led to a four-day jury trial and a really suddenly, and it really has number of hearings on other, non-routine issues. brought home the fact that life is “Unusual aspects of the case included demonstrations by not always going to be as long as supporters on the courthouse lawn, attempts by “sovereign you think it’s going to be,” citizens” to participate, an issue regarding Amish religious Mueller told the Journal Times. traditions, accommodation of the overflow of courtroom Mueller, who retired in spectators, and coordination of media coverage together November, was first appointed to with handling requests to “live stream” the proceedings, just the bench in 1992 by then-Gov. to name a few,” Reynolds said. “It was one of those cases Tommy Thompson. There were requiring a lot of attention, to put it mildly.” very few women judges in There are many things Reynolds will miss about being on Wisconsin and the nation at the the bench. time, and Mueller was just the “I will miss my exceptionally able assistant, my terrific second woman to serve as a judge Judge Emily S. Mueller court reporter, and my judicial colleagues, as well as the rest in Racine County. of the courthouse team… I will surely miss the human When Mueller became a judge, her mother presented her stories and circumstances which come before the court on an with her late father’s robe. Harold Mueller had served as a almost daily basis and which, as it is said, you simply municipal court judge in Manitowoc, but died before she cannot make up!” Reynolds said. took the bench. His robe remained hung in her chambers In his retirement, Reynolds looks forward to spending during her career. more time with this wife, children, and grandchildren and Mueller has presided over five different Racine courts, traveling. He also serves as a reserve judge. including felony, family and probate, misdemeanor, juvenile, and civil. In 2017, she was honored as Trial Judge of the Year by the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Board of Judge Richard J. Sankovitz Trial Advocates. Milwaukee County Circuit Court One of the biggest changes for the Court System over the Judge Richard J. Sankovitz retired at the end of 2018, with past 26 years has been the conversion from paper filing to e- more than 22 years of experience on the bench. He was filing. One thing that has remained constant, she said, is the appointed in 1996 by then-Gov. Tommy Thompson after effort to treat all people with respect. being in private practice and having served as a law clerk in Mueller plans to travel in her retirement. federal court. “I’d like to spend more time in my hiking boots and less Sankovitz said many cases are memorable for anguish or time in a chair. The Galapagos is on our sight line now,” tragedy and that many tend to be too memorable. “So when said Mueller. we look back, we tend to single out the lighter moments, and thankfully there were many,” Sankovitz said, noting a Judge Guy D. Reynolds few of his favorites: In 2009, Sankovitz was sentencing a former Milwaukee Sauk County Circuit Court alderman for bribery and election law violations. The “Listen carefully, be patient, and keep reading the law.” That’s the advice Sauk County Circuit Court Judge Guy see Retirements on page 27 routine. Hesuggests alwayskeepinginmindthe first engaged andfocused onproceedings,evenifthey mayseem affects howjudgesareperceivedthroughoutthestate. and ideologyinthejudicialselection process,whichhesaid observed overtheyearsisanincreasing roleofpartisanship decisions aboutpeoplewhoappear incourt. it possibleforjudgestobebetterinformedandmake around thecountry. Improvementsintechnologyhavemade He said Wisconsin’s judicialdashboardistheenvyofjudges work,” Sankovitzsaid. regularly visitMilwaukeetoseehowwemakeEBDM Judges andcourtadministratorsfromacrossthenation of thousandsdollarseveryyearinunneededjailspace. community andatthesametimesavedcountyhundreds decisions anddiversion/deferredprosecutiondecisions. research-based pretrialriskassessmenttoinformbail (EBDM) Initiative.Inparticular, henotedtheuseof Milwaukee County’s Evidence-BasedDecisionMaking onto thevictim’s property.” acquaintances .andthathisprintshadbeentransferred defendant statedthathe[thenshook]handswiththetwo on the11th andcan’t beinvolvedinthis.’ . The approached thewindowandyelledin‘Ihaveasentencing pretrial conferenceinaburglary case.Eventhoughthe missing myshow!” clearer: “Tell himtogetonwithit,Dr. PhilisonandIam But thenwhensheaskedhimtorepeat,hemadehimself and shethoughthesaid,“Tell Dr. Philtogetonwithit!” for myamateurpsychologicalevaluationofthedefendant, interrupted. At somepointshethoughthewascriticizingme after shetoldhimIwasonthebenchandcouldn’t be said, askingtospeakme,andhewouldnotrelent,even her afterwardwhathadhappened. A manhadcalled,she stressed whisperandrepeatingherselfseveraltimes.Iasked clerk, DenaNardi,onthetelephone,speakinginaheavily about thedefendant. people, includingthejudge,whowereexpressingopinions hearing wasmovingabitslowlyduetothenumberof Sankovitz Judge RichardJ. He advisesnewjudgestopractice patienceandtostay Sankovitz saidoneofthebiggest changesthathehas Sankovitz alsoservedontheCCAP Steering Committee. “The processhasreducedrecidivismandprotectedthe Sankovitz saidhewasproudtohaveworkedon In anotherlightermoment,Sankovitzwasconductinga “In themidstofmyremarksIlookeddownandsaw RETIREMENTS defendant statedthathe went inthroughawindow. The approached theresidenceand he sawtwoacquaintances.. the placeofsaidburglary when detectives hewaswalkingpast was arrested. The defendanttold the detectivesasmuchwhenhe defense wasairtight,andhetold defendant insistedonatrial. they hadbeentaken,the and fromthesafewhich recovered fromthestolengoods, defendant’s fingerprintswere “[H]is acquaintances The defendantbelievedhis continued frompage 26 Retired JeffersonCountyCircuitCourtJudgeJenniferL. Weston, left, receivesaretirementrecognitionplaquefrom District ThreeChiefJudgeJenniferR.Dorow, Waukesha County CircuitCourt.Weston retiredin2018after nineyears on thebenchandpreviousworkasamunicipal judge,court commissioner, andprivatepracticeattorney. trial courtswhenpossibleasaspecialmasterorreferee. concentrate oncomplexcommercialdisputesandhelping bad astheysayyouarewhenyou’rebad.” say youarewhentheyyou’regood,butneveras principle ofjudicialhumility:“You’re neverasgoodthey that Tammy willbemissedbymany. adventure inlife,”Hennicksaid. there comesatimetomoveonand experienceanew like I’mabandoningmy“workfamily.” Butaswithanyjob made somanyfriends…thatitfeels judiciary alltheseyears.Ihave working withandservingthe experiences inretirement. work, butisexcitedfornew and thejudges,”Hennicksaid. because youcareabouttheoffice enjoyed herwork.“You doit with itschallenges,butshestill Coordinator atthesametimecame Program Assistant andConference Everingham. Conference CoordinatoraftertheretirementofDona Judicial Education.InJune2017,shewaspromotedto February 1988asaProgram Assistant intheOffice of Judicial Education Tammy Hennick on January24,2019. Education, ConferenceCoordinator Tammy Hennickretired Sankovitz isnowpracticingmediation,hopingto Director ofJudicialEducationKarla Baumgartnernoted “It hasbeenagreatpleasure Hennick willmissalotabouther Holding boththepositionof Hennick beganhercareerwiththeCourtSystemin After nearly31yearswiththeOffice ofJudicial see Retirements Tammy Hennick on page 28

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Spring/ RETIREMENTS continued from page 27 Summer 2019 “For 31 years, the Office of Judicial Education and its marble walls of the Supreme Court Hearing Room before staff couldn’t have been more fortunate than to have Tammy each oral argument: “Hear Ye, Hear Ye. All rise. The THE THIRD BRANCH as a coworker,” Baumgartner said. “With Tammy’s Supreme Court is now in session. Your silence is retirement, it is truly the end of an era for our office and she commanded.” will be missed by the staff and judges for many, many In retirement, Nodolf’s commands aren’t likely to reach reasons, but most of all because she was our friend.” much farther than her dogs, who are likely to be confused In her retirement, Hennick looks forward to sleeping in about why she is suddenly spending so much more time at past 3:30 a.m. as well as spending her summers at her cabin home. in Canada. Nodolf was hired in January 2003 to replace the retiring James L. Jerney. Since then, Nodolf has seen about a dozen Jennifer Krapf Supreme Court justices come and go, as well as numerous law clerks and judicial assistants with whom she keeps in Administrative Assistant to Chief touch. Judge, Court of Appeals Nodolf said she will miss her colleagues at the Supreme After 38 years of working for the Court of Appeals, Court, as well as friends who work for other state agencies, Jennifer Krapf retired in September. such as the Capitol Police and building management. Nodolf Krapf was first hired by Chief Staff Attorney Steve frequently had contact with staff from those agencies in her Felsenthal in September 1980. When Judge William F. Eich role of maintaining security and facilities. was appointed to the Court of Appeals by then-Gov. Tony One of her primary roles, along with Deputy Marshal Earl in 1985, he hired Krapf as his judicial secretary, and by Kevin Pond, was ensuring decorum in the Hearing Room 1990, Krapf was appointed Administrative Assistant to the during Supreme Court oral argument. Nodolf also oversaw Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals. In addition to Eich, the delivery, collection and safekeeping of court files being she has served in the role of administrative assistant to Chief circulated between the clerk’s office and justices’ chambers. Judge Thomas Cane (1998), Chief Judge Richard Brown Pond, who started as deputy in 2004, is also leaving the (2007), and Chief Judge Lisa J. Neubauer (2015). Court in August to take a job with Dane County Krapf says that she will miss certain aspects of her job, government. but she will mostly miss the people she has worked with Before joining the Court, Nodolf had a varied career, over the years. including sections relations coordinator at the State Bar. “I will miss most the wonderful co-workers. I value the Before that she worked as a county welfare fraud friendships I have gained as an employee of the Wisconsin investigator, a private investigator and as an investigator for Court of Appeals. From the beginning of my career, I have the Appleton office of the State Public Defender. Nodolf been surrounded by caring and thoughtful colleagues,” also made history early in her career, when she became the Krapf said. first woman police officer in her hometown of Platteville. Having been a court system employee since 1980, Krapf Nodolf said she is planning to do more traveling, has seen a great deal of change. gardening and yard work in her retirement. Her one-acre “Beside great technological leaps, the biggest change I property just south of Portage currently looks like Jurassic have witnessed has been the reduction of published cases Park,” she said. from 25- to 10-percent of all eligible cases,” Krapf said. She said won’t miss getting up at 4 a.m. for the early She said she is most proud of being part of a coordinated commute to Madison. team effort to form a statewide court into a unified single court through procedures, styles, and formats. “We brought see Retirements on page 39 a paper-based entity to a national model of automation with an eye toward ultimate e-filing,” Krapf said. However, not all change has necessarily been good, Krapf said. She feels there is less appreciation for clerical work than when she started, and that the judiciary has become more divided. In her retirement, Krapf plans to read to children at the Early Learning Center, spend time with her dogs, travel, and most importantly pull plenty of senior pranks.

Tina Nodolf Supreme Court Marshal As the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s first woman marshal, Tina Nodolf made history. Now, you could say, she is history... at least as far as the court system is concerned. Nodolf is retiring in August, after “almost 17 years” of keeping order in the court, and keeping the Court in order. Supreme Court Marshal Tina Nodolf monitors oral argument Her familiar voice will no longer reverberate from the from her desk in the Supreme Court Hearing Room. her workhelping lawyersandotherjudges. characteristics ofKunhmuench’s careerasajudgehasbeen embrace theruleoflaw;itguidesmeinallthatIdo.” and Iamcourteoustoallwhocomebeforemycourt. “I amimpartialandrulejustly. Iam notwithoutcompassion, is toservethepublicinthisrole,” Yang told on myrobe,Iamremindedofwhatanhonorandprivilegeit dreams.’” never giveuponyour overcome obstacles,and youngster: ‘workhard, what shelearnedasa teach herthreedaughters Yang saysshe’s tryingto Hmong community, of herfamilyandaclose crash. With thesupport husband diedinacar months whenher been ajudgeforjusttwo personal tragedy;she’d win wasfollowedby Madison. she enrolledattheUW- those pathstojustice, Inspired tounblock especially forthosewithfinancialorlanguagebarriers. people tomakesenseofhealthcareandlegalsystems, was badlyinjured, Yang sawhowdifficult itcanbefor on toearnacomputer-science degree. Butwhenherbrother children, Yang stayedcommittedtoher educationandwent cases, spentadecadeofthattimeaspresidentthe Milwaukee Countyand,whilepresidingoverhundredsof before 210peopleinMilwaukeeonFeb.21. award bythe Wisconsin LawJournalduringaceremony Kuhnmuench washonoredwithaLifetime Achievement Achievement Award’ Kuhnmuench presentedwith‘Lifetime Kuhnmuench Judge MaryM. Retired ChiefJudge Jeffrey A. KremerssaidKuhnmuench “Every daywhenIput “Yang’s professional Kuhnmuench spentmorethan20yearsonthebenchin Retired MilwaukeeCountyCircuitCourtJudgeMaryM. AWARDS continued frompage .Triggiano toldStrebel. E. County CircuitCourtJudgeMary family andfriends,”Milwaukee career, hercommunitywork, resounding themethroughouther to helppeople.It’s beenthe and beyondtodowhatshecan dedication toservingothers. colleagues abouthercareerand Kuhnmuench andsomeofher Strebel recentlyinterviewed Association. Wisconsin TrialJudges cover ofForwardUnder40. Judge Kashoua“Kristy” Yang onthe One ofthedistinctive “She’s willingtojustgoabove Law JournalReporterErika  On Wisconsin . as interestedinmentoringyounglawyersandjudges,” generous withhertime. that person’s career. HealsosaidKuhnmuenchiscaringand has alwayshadsomeoneunderherwing,helpingadvance Marquette University. ceremony on April 16intheEisenberg ReadingRoomat which Ifindveryrewarding.” is notonlyanavocation,butaformofcommunityservice lectures toundergraduate students ineveningclasses. Cultural Sciencesforthepastnineyears,givinglaw-related mentorship, andteaching. .Holz,deanoftheCollege of Arts andSciences. C. on criminologyand law. Theaward waspresentedbyRichard Arts andSciences, whereheteachesundergraduate courses is alecturerattheuniversity’s HelenWay KlinglerCollegeof the Year awardbyMarquetteUniversity. Rondini,anattorney, was recentlyrecognizedwiththe Adjunct FacultyMember of Jefferson CountyRegisterinProbate, RobertRondini,left, “I don’t knowanyotherjudgewhoinmycareerhasbeen Rondini andotherawardwinnerswererecognizedina In hisMarquetteUniversitybio,Rondininotes,“Teaching Rondini hastaughtintheDepartmentofSocialand judge,” Kuhnmuenchsaid. want touseitinwaysyou’renotablewhena produce apodcast. slowing down.Sheplanstoreturnteachingand Homeless Veterans’Initiative. Milwaukee JewishFamilyServicesand her timetonumerousnon-profitgroupsincluding Kremers said. Marquette University Rondini recognizedforworkat was recentlyawardedthe and studentstotheschoolinareasofscholarship, Sciences atMarquetteUniversity. Award “I haveavoiceandIwanttocontinueuseit,but Although retired,Kuhnmuenchshowsnosignof On topofherjudicialwork,Kuhnmuenchdedicated Jefferson CountyRegisterinProbate RobertRondini The awardrecognizescontributionsofstaff, faculty, by theDeanofKlinglerCollege Arts and  Adjunct FacultyoftheYear

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Spring/ AWARDS Summer 2019 Court Statistics Project recognizes Wisconsin THE THIRD BRANCH for data reporting accomplishments isconsin is one of five states to win the Court The CSP is a joint project of the National Center for State WStatistics Project (CSP) 2017 Reporting Excellence Courts (NCSC) and the Conference of State Court Award from the Conference of State Court Administrators’ Administrators (COSCA). It publishes caseload data from (COSCA) Court Statistics Committee. the courts of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and In announcing the award, CSP Director Nicole Waters Puerto Rico. said the states were honored for embracing the challenge of These data are provided by the offices of the state court improving data quality and comparability for 2017 appellate administrator in those jurisdictions. The data reported here caseload data reported to CSP. conform to the definitions and case counting rules in The Wisconsin Court of Appeals increased caseload the State Court Guide to Statistical Reporting (Guide). “publishability” from 38-percent in 2016 to 78-percent in States publish their own data that may be more extensive, 2017, according to the CSP. although not directly comparable to other states for a variety The accomplishment is being recognized with one framed of reasons, including differences in court structure, case and one unframed certificate and will be highlighted on the definitions and counting practices, court rules, statutes, or Court Statistics Project website, courtstatistics.org. terminology. The experience of the CSP staff, along with Consistent and comparable data improve the management of adherence to the Guide’s reporting framework, ensures state courts and enhance the understanding of the work of comparability of the data reported to CSP. The project the judicial branch, Waters wrote in a letter co-written by includes support and partnership of COSCA, the Conference Pamela Harris, chair of the CSP committee. of Chief Justices, the National Conference of Appellate The awards were announced in December at the business Court Clerks and National Association of Court Managers meeting at the COSCA Midyear meeting in Las Vegas, (NACM).  Nevada.

In June 2018 Tenth Judicial District Court Administrator Don Harper presented outgoing Chief Judge Scott Needham, St. Croix Circuit Court, a clock to commemorate his seven years Outgoing State Bar of Wisconsin President Chris Rogers as chief judge. When asked about his future plans, Judge presents the Bar President’s Award to Chief Justice Patience Needham replied jokingly, “I am looking forward to being an Drake Roggensack “in recognition of her service as Chief ordinary judge for a while.” Needham remains on the circuit Justice to our state, the legal profession, and to furthering court to which he was first elected in 1994. justice in Wisconsin.” The award was presented at the Bar’s Annual Meeting and Conference in June. 31

Spring/ Justice Ziegler honored as Alumna of the Summer 2019

Year by Marquette University Law School THE THIRD BRANCH ustice Annette Kingsland Ziegler Jreceived the 2019 Alumna of the Year Award from Marquette University Law School during a ceremony April 3. The award is presented annually to the alumnus who has reached a level of excellence in career and exemplifies the school’s mission of faith, service, leadership and excellence in personal and professional life. Law School Dean Joseph D. Kearney presented the award with high praise for Ziegler’s public service, work in the law, and for her contributions to the work of the law school. Justice Ziegler speaks during an award ceremony at Marquette University Law School, And, he offered a punchline: “I where she received the school’s Alumna of the Year Award. apologize to you for any role Marquette University Law School had in causing you to abandon, or at any rate, not yet to realize, your childhood ambition of becoming a meteorologist…” During her remarks, Ziegler credited the law school, her parents, family, and upbringing for her success. “For a girl who grew up sweeping the floors in her parents’ hardware store – now sitting up here on stage at Marquette, getting this award – I find that simply amazing.” In announcing the award, the law school noted that Ziegler reflects Marquette’s mission in both her personal and professional life: “Her civic work ranges from the Marquette Law School Advisory Board to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. She’s also a member of the American Bar Association, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Justice Annette Kingsland Ziegler poses at a Marquette  University Law School award ceremony with Judicial International Women’s Forum.” Assistant Susan Gray, right, and former Judicial Assistant Mary Roderick, retired, left.

The state’s nine District Court Administrators took time for a group photo while in Madison for a meeting with the Committee of Chief Judges and the Wisconsin Supreme Court on May 21. From left to right: Holly Szablewski, District One; Louis Moore, District Two; John Bellows, District Four; Patrick Brummond, District Seven; Susan Byrnes, District Nine; Michael Neimon, District Three; Thomas Schappa, District Eight; Theresa Owens, District Five; and Don Harper, District Ten. 32

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THE THIRD BRANCH outside the area to help handle cases. Many of those believes judges and lawyers should be active leaders in their attorneys come from Madison, which can complicate court local communities,” the InsideTrack wrote. schedules and appearances. Being a judge or a lawyer in a rural area provides an Demolition of an intake court building began on March 11 opportunity to handle a range of cases and living in a to make way for a new addition to the Waukesha County smaller community offers advantages, VenDeHey said. Courthouse, next to the county jail, CBS58-TV news The State Bar has made the initiative an annual event. In reported. 2018, the tour stopped in Grant, Crawford, Trempealeau and An estimated 52,000 sq. ft. of building area is being Pepin counties. demolished to make way for the 62,000 square-foot, four- The program provides opportunities for young lawyers story and eight-courtroom addition, with an estimated price and law students to meet with local lawyers, judges, and tag of $38.5 million. The construction on the new addition business leaders to hear first-hand accounts of what it’s like is expected to be complete by 2021, with renovations on the to live and work in rural parts of the state. remaining portions of the courthouse beginning in 2022. The project will replace and modernize space that was Dane County Circuit Court Judge built about 60 years ago, improving safety and security. Everett D. Mitchell was featured in “As you can imagine, a secure courthouse is vital to a an article published June 19 in the secure community,” Waukesha County Circuit Court chief State Bar of Wisconsin’s Inside Track judge Jennifer Dorow told CBS58. “The design of the newsletter. building itself and the flow of the building is really the During a keynote at the Bar’s G. cornerstone of courthouse security.” Lane Ware Leadership Academy in April, Mitchell outlined three La Crosse County Circuit Court Judge Ramona A. principles of leadership that he uses Gonzalez was one of four women called before a U.S. to make a difference in the justice House subcommittee on crime to system: Have the Courage to address domestic violence and Redefine What is Known; Bring similar threats to public safety, Judge Everett D. Mitchell People with You; and Remain WIZM Radio reported on March Flexible, Embrace Your Options. 7. “Once called an ‘advocate judge,’ Dane County Circuit According to the station, Court Judge Everett Mitchell is known for his leadership on Gonzalez told the Congressional issues of disparate incarceration, juvenile justice, and racism panel: “It is really a great hope that we will end this violence… But it will not happen unless we open our hearts and our minds to understand that Judge Ramona A. it is not just those who Gonzalez die, who lose their lives to this violence that are important, but it is those that must keep on living.” Gonzalez is the president-elect of a national council of family court judges. She and the other judges spoke in favor of the need to continue the Violence Against Women Act, passed in 1994. The Act expired late last year during the federal government shutdown, according to WIZM.

The Waupaca County Drug Court held a ceremony for its first graduate on Feb. 6, the Waupaca County Post reported. Courtland Fritz, 54, who entered the program as the court’s first participant in November 2017, said the treatment court program helped him achieve “a stable environment, an honest heart, peace of mind Justice Ann Walsh Bradley was a featured speaker at the Centennial and reflection of 35 years lost,” according to the celebration of Wisconsin becoming the first state to ratify the 19th paper. Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The event, which was In December 2013, Fritz was convicted of the held in the Capitol Rotunda on June 10, drew a crowd of women in manufacture and delivery of methamphetamines. leadership roles in state government. Chief Justice Patience Drake Roggensack attended the ceremony, along with Justices Shirley S. He was placed on three years of probation, ordered Abrahamson, Rebecca Frank Dallet, Rebecca Grassl Bradley, and Annette Kingsland Ziegler. see News and Notes on page 33 Judge Michael P. Screnock applauded, praised andaregivenafriendlyreminder notto made itthrough the monthremainingsober. They are reporter onNov. 30. Participants discussedtheirexperiences indetailwitha provided servicesto39people,according tothearticle. Treatment Court,JudgeMichaelP. Screnockpresiding,has court programsinSaukandColumbiacounties. on issuesarisingfromabankruptcy. Michael R.Fitzpatrick,Shermanheardargument inacase fellow Courtof Appeals’ JudgesBrian W. Blanchardand going ontheroadgivescourtsomevisibility. Along with does. increase awarenessoftheCourt Appeals andtheworkit three-judge paneloftheDistrictIV Courtof Appeals. argument heardattheLaCrosseCounty courthousebya event,” Fritzsaid,thePostreported. instead ofusingdrugs. good, productivememberofourcommunity.” housing, hehasadriver’s license,” Clussmansaid.“Heisa back ontrack.“Courtlandhasagoodjob,hestable stable environment. self-supporting, hadnoarrests,foundajobandmovedinto the drugcourtprogram,hepassed127tests,became court everyweek. month sentencewasstayed,andFritzbeganappearingin participating indrugcourt. The remainderofhisnine- Circuit CourtJudge Vicki L.Clussmanandbegan probation andsentencedtoninemonthsinjail. Convicted ofbothcounts,Fritzwasplacedontwoyears for sixmonthsbecausehisprobationwasrevoked. meth andpossessionofnarcotics.Heremainedincustody counseling recommendedbyhisprobationagent. to perform50hoursofcommunityserviceandundergo any “Most admitthey’vestruggled.Some havesuccessfully Since itsinceptionin2016,theSauk County Adult “‘Most peoplehardlyrealizeweexist,’ Shermansaid.‘We Judge GaryE.Sherman,nowretired,toldthestationthat The tripwaspartofanoutreachprogramdesignedto On Dec.20,2018, WIZM Radio reportedonoral “How gratefulcanapersonactuallybeforlife-saving Fritz saiddrugcourttaughthimhowtodealwithlife The paperquotedClussmanassayingFritzputhislife According tothePost,during440daysFritzwasin On Nov. 22,2017,Fritzappearedbefore Waupaca County On May30,2017,Fritzwascharged withpossessionof NEWS AND NOTES published anarticlehighlighting success storiesofadulttreatment Prairie Eaglenewspaper Stevens Point. the PortageCountyCourthousein on theroadholdingarguments at dozen timesayear.’” an oralargument atmostahalf wear robes. We reallyonlyhold in acourtroomallday, weseldom court in Wisconsin. We don’t sit are kindofthemostinvisible On Dec.19,2018,theSauk On July8,DistrictIV wasback continued frompage 32 “They havetoademonstratedsubstanceabuseissue has committedaviolentoffense,” Hepler toldthenewspaper. several guidelinesinordertobeaccepted. realized wecan’t arrestour way outofthesituation.” Columbia County,” Heplersaid.“It really botheredme.I addiction,” accordingtothearticle. individuals wereaffected by mind whenhesawhowmany 2015. “Buthequicklychangedhis court whenhestartedasajudgein intention ofstartingupatreatment Judge Todd J.Heplersaidhehadno keep going.” support andtoolsknowledgeto Screnock remindsthemtheyhavethe program orgivenasanction. automatically kickedoutofthe meetings. The individualisn’t out formoresupportorattend ahead forfuturesituations.Hemightrecommendreaching what (led)totheirslipupandasksthemhowtheywillplan continuing: “Screnockdoesn’t condemnthem.Heinquires and fedtheircraving,”reporter Autumn Luedkewrote, become complacent. A fewhavesuccumbedtolife’s stresses in 2007,withthemostrecentdonation goingtoLocksofLove. Justice Zieglerstarted thetraditionofdonatinghairforcause cost tochildrenwhohavelosttheir hairasaresultofillness. inches ofherhairtoacharitythat provideshairprosthesesatno Last fall,Justice Annette KingslandZieglerdonatedabout 14 “Because ofourrestrictions,wecan’t acceptsomeonewho Columbia Countytreatmentcourtparticipantsmustmeet “I wasastoundedbythenumberofdrug-relatedcasesin In ColumbiaCounty, CircuitCourt see News andNotes Judge Todd J.Hepler on page 34

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THE THIRD BRANCH imprisonment.” Shirley S. Abrahamson gave the Columbia County’s Treatment 2018 Robert W. Kastenmeier Court has separate programs for Lecture at UW Law School. drug and alcohol cases. The term Abrahamson addressed her of participation for successful experiences as both a judge and a participants in both Sauk and lawyer, the Wisconsin Law Columbia County programs is Journal reported. about 18-24 months. Abrahamson “cracked jokes rapid-fire from her wheelchair Racine County Circuit Court and chuckled heartily as she and Judge Eugene A. Gasiorkiewicz U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Judge Eugene A. was the author of an article on the Crabb reminisced on Friday Justice Shirley S. Gasiorkiewicz evolution of the Daubert standard, about how they met and their Abrahamson published in the 2018 Summer early days in practice. edition of the American Bar Association’s Judicial Division Abrahamson said she and Crabb were the only two women newsletter. in legal practice in Madison who were not related or “Should We Continue to Allow Opinion Testimony to a married to lawyers at their firm, the Law Journal reported. ‘Reasonable Scientific Certainty?’” traces the evolution of “Crabb, whom Abrahamson met at UW-Madison, noted the admissibility of expert witness testimony following the that Abrahamson knew at just six years old that she wanted U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow to be a lawyer. Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993). “I never had another idea of what I should be,” said Daubert is one of three cases that serve as the basis for Abrahamson. “I don’t think I had any other talent to do case law or statutory requirements for establishing the anything else,” the artilce read. admissibility of expert testimony in most states, Gasiorkiewicz wrote. On Oct. 17, 2018, Bayfield County Circuit Court Judge Gasiorkiewicz suggests in the article that if trial judges John P. Anderson appeared on properly apply Daubert criteria to screen out speculative The Wheeler Report’s “Local testimony, the use of language to address any particular Gov Matters” podcast with State degree of certainty is not useful or necessary. Public Defender Kelli Thompson to discuss the lack of private The Capital Times reported on a study of the use of attorneys willing or able to signature bonds in Dane County criminal cases from 2012 represent indigent defendants to 2016. when public defenders aren’t The study, conducted by Dane available. County Circuit Judge Nicholas J. Thompson called the problem McNamara, found that Dane County a crisis, and said not many is not routinely holding defendants private attorneys are willing to on excessively high cash bail for low level misdemeanor charges, see News and Notes on page 40 Judge John P. Anderson according the Capital Times. McNamara reported Director of State his findings to the Dane Courts Randy County Board to assist Koschnick spoke in planning for jail at a press space. He told the conference announcing a newspaper: “For things proposal to Judge Nicholas J. like trying to find ways increase state McNamara to reduce the number of budget support jail beds needed, it for the justice would be unrealistic to just say, ‘Well, we need system, an increase in the to have fewer cash bail orders for criminal private bar traffic and misdemeanor cases.’” reimbursement “In a study of nearly 33,000 criminal cases rate, better pay from 2012 to 2016, McNamara found that 81 for public percent of all defendants charged in criminal defenders, additional district cases — including felonies, misdemeanors and attorney positions criminal traffic cases — were released on and circuit court signature bonds. Cash bail was ordered in 19 support percent of the cases,” the newspaper reported. payments. courtroom, from initial appearancetosentencing on May24,werecarriedlivebynews outlets worldwide. ultimately convicted of,killingtheparents ofJayme Clossandkidnappingthegirl. Proceedings inJudgeJamesC.Babler’s he discussescharges againstJakePattersonatthe BarronCountyCourthouseon Jan.11. Pattersonwaschargedwith, and In oneofWisconsin’s highestprofilecasesever, dozensofphotojournalists focusonBarronCountySheriffChrisFitzgeralda Judicial Education launches videonewsletter newsletter issenttojudgesmonthlyviaemail. Library, andotherinterestingarticlesresources. A linktothevideo shop includeslinkstohelpfulresearchsites,suchasthe Wisconsin Law education materialsasanongoingresourceforjudges. This one-stop supplement in-personseminars. Judicial Educationtoprovidemoreon-demandvideosandtutorials Coordinator, thevideosarepartofalarger initiativeintheOffice of other topics. Court Training Seminar, aswellMunicipalCourtEducation,among Meeting oftheJudicialConference,CivilLawSeminarand Treatment seminars andjudicialeducationofferings. helpful onlineresourcesandinviteinputfromjudgesaboutfuture and informjudgesaboutjudicialeducationopportunities,highlight T The goaloftheprojectistocreateaknowledge-basetrainingand Produced byEmilyBrooks,thenewJudicialResourceandOutreach The debuteditionincludedinformationaboutthe2018 Annual video newsletterinNovember. The videosaredesignedtoupdate he Office ofJudicialEducationlaunchedanewmonthlyonline  Supreme Courtin2017. students, whichheldasessionatthe Advanced PlacementGovernment Summer Instituteforteachersof in UW-Madison School ofEducation’s inspired byteacherswhoparticipated annual event.Bothmeetingswere outreach programthathasbecomean High Schoolaspart ofaninformal met withstudents fromtheSt. Francis Justice PatienceDrakeRoggensack courts. 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About 600 people, including 45 judges, took part in the Wisconsin Association of Treatment Court Professionals Conference on May 8 in Wisconsin Dells. Left, Director of State Courts Randy Koschnick hosts an open discussion, along with Statewide Problem-solving Court Coordinator Katy Burke from the Office of Court Operations. Right, La Crosse County Circuit Court Judge Elliot M. Levine makes a point during the judicial networking session at the conference.

OBITUARIES continued from page 9 Prior to his service as a judge, Nichol is survived by his wife, Dr. Kathryn Piziali, his Nichol practiced law privately until three children, and two sisters. he was elected Dane County District Attorney. He also served as Special Judge James L. Martin Counsel to both the Office of Lawyer Regulation and the State Ethics Dane County Circuit Court Board. From 1974 until 1987, he Retired Dane County Circuit Court Judge James L. Martin was a Town of Madison Municipal died June 29, after a brief illness. He was 74 years old. Court Judge. “Jim” Martin was born on March 18, 1945 in Colp, Nichol was elected to the Dane Illinois. He grew up in Racine and graduated from Racine County Circuit Court in 1988. He Park High School in 1963. Martin received his bachelor’s was re-elected until his retirement degree from the University of Dubuque and his Juris Doctor from the UW Law School in 1977. Judge Gerald C. Nichol from the bench in 2004. In his retirement, Nichol was Martin served 25 years in the City Attorney’s office in appointed by former Governor Jim Doyle to the Madison, first as assistant city attorney, then as city attorney Government Accountability Board in 2008. He also until he was appointed to the Dane County Circuit Court by enjoyed involvement in a number of community service then-Gov. Jim Doyle in 2003. Martin was elected to the efforts in Dane County including Big Brothers, Luke House, bench in 2004 and retired in 2009. Rubin for Kids, Safe Harbor, and the Blue Line Club. see Obituaries on page 38

Law Library continued from page 4 Both libraries serve judges in their counties, managing and scheduling volunteers for legal assistance clinics offered in maintaining judges’ research collections and making sure the courthouse, including the Small Claims Assistance valuable chamber research materials are kept up to date. In Clinic. Inmate requests for research and information are also addition to these duties, each library works with its local handled by library staff. Last year the library fielded 2,000 courts and other organizations to help county residents, requests from inmates in the Dane County Jail. collaborating with a variety of pro se legal assistance The Milwaukee and Dane County Law Libraries are organizations and programs. robust partners of their local county court system and play a At the Milwaukee County Law Library (MCLL), vital role in serving self-represented users, attorneys, court librarians work in conjunction with the Milwaukee Justice staff, and judges in their respective counties. Library staff at Center to provide information and services to pro se both locations encourage everyone to take advantage of litigants. Staff also help users navigate obtaining proof of these resources.  public benefits for use in fee waiver applications. Local attorneys and members of the public can take monthly CLE- For more information about the law library branches and a credit classes coordinated by the MCLL and presented at the review of 2018 activities, visit the Wisconsin State Law nearby Milwaukee Public Library. Library’s website. The Dane County Law Library (DCLL) assists with will askanothercourtreporterto doso. to transcribetheproceeding, districtcourtadministrator from thatrecording.Ifthejudge’s courtreporterisnotable that judgewillbeprimarilyresponsibleforanytranscript official courtreporter, thenthecourt reporterassignedto captured byadigitalaudiorecordingnotmonitoredan their ownaudiorecordings.Iftheverbatimrecordwas Digital courtreporterswillberesponsiblefortranscribing transcribe audiorecordings from theDARsystem? Will stenographiccourtreporters beexpectedto reporters tofillvacantpositions. digital courtreporters,voicewriters,orreal-time plans torecruitandretainstenographiccourtreporters, be, thepersonalappointeesoftheirjudges. The courtsystem No. Courtreportersalwayshavebeen,andwillcontinueto Did Order 19-01eliminatecourt reporter positions? when theoriginalcourtreporterisunavailable. judges tofindcourtreportercoverageforproceedings flexibility toallowdistrictcourtadministratorsandchief reporting, andvoicewriting.Order19-01alsoprovided including monitoreddigitalaudiorecording,stenographic is launchingitsfirst-ever existing Wisconsin SupremeCourtOrder19-01recognizedthe What did Wisconsin Supreme CourtOrder 19-01do? during andaftercourtproceedings. legal transcripts.Inaddition,Fox Valley Technical College on trainingtranscribing,editing,andproofreadingof successful courtreporter. The programsalsoprovidehands- terminology, techniques,procedures,andethicsusedtobea The trainingprogramscovertheprinciples,legal search theelectronicrecordtoplaybacktestimonyboth electronically storedbyCCAP. These notescanbeusedto notes, whicharedetailednotesthattimestampedand troubleshoot anyconcerns. The DCR willalsotakelog being recorded,sothereportercanquicklyidentifyand confidence monitoring. The headphones capturewhatis hearing, theDCRwillwearheadphones. This isknownas microphones arecapturingtheaudioproperly. Duringthe This includesconductingsoundcheckstoguaranteethatall The DCRwillconductdailytestingoftheDARsystem. How doesadigitalcourtreporter runtheDARsystem? mixer. hardware componentssuchasaclock,headset,andaudio made upofnumeroussoftwarecomponents,aswell recording anddistributionoftheaudiofile. The systemis FTR isanaudiosoftwaresystemthatallowsforboththe the Record(FTR)softwareandstandardCCAP hardware. Consolidated Court Automation Programs(CCAP)usesFor What isincludedintheDARsystem? fall. FAQs ways oftakingtheverbatimrecordin Wisconsin, continued frompage 4 digital courtreporterprogram this of CourtOperationsat(608)267-7335. reporting in Wisconsin, contactKatCarpenter intheOffice For moreinformationontheblendedsystemofcourt blended systemofcourtreporting in Wisconsin? Where canIgetmore informationonthemovetoa appropriately. by-step instructionsonhowtousetheDARsystems audio playback,andmore. These documentsgivevitalstep- including informationonlognotes,usersetup,pre-checks, Yes. CCAP hasseveraltechnicaltrainingdocuments, DAR? Are there trainingmaterialsavailableonhowtouse DAR systemistypicallyrunbythecourtroomclerk. court commissionerproceedings.Inthesesituations,the counties choosetopurchaseanduseDARsystemsrecord required tobereportedunderSCR71.01.However, many Yes. Mostcircuitcourtcommissionerhearings arenot versus hearingsinfront ofajudge? Is DARrundifferently incourtcommissioner hearings may notbeappropriateforcertaintypesofhearings. skill andtrainingofthemonitor. UsingDARwithamonitor proceeding, thelikelihoodofatranscriptrequest,and availability ofacourtreporter, thecomplexityof with amonitor, considerationsshouldincludethe monitor. When determiningwhethertoruntheDARsystem the courtofficial shouldassignaperson inthecourtroomto equipment shouldbemonitoredbythecourtroomclerkor unmonitored. Inanemergency situation, theDAR used totaketherecord. The DARsystemshouldneverbe no courtreporteravailable,thenDARequipmentmaybe proceeding, anothercourtreportershouldbeused.Ifthereis If anofficial courtreporterisnotavailable tocoveracourt emergency situation? Will theclerkbeexpectedtorunDARsysteminan to transcriptfeesasprovidedin Wis. Stat. §814.69. court reporterwhotranscribesanaudiorecordingisentitled commented thatthetranscriptsareindistinguishable. The Yes. JudgeswhoregularlyusemonitoredDARhave other verbatimrecords? Are transcriptsfrom DARthesameastranscriptsfrom and DARsystem. conducted over100jurytrialswithhisdigitalcourtreporter evidentiary hearingsandjurytrials.Onejudgehas court reportertocaptureavarietyofproceedings,including have usedmonitoreddigitalaudiorecordingwitha Yes. Overthepastdecade,severaljudgesacrossstate system? Can ajudgeconductjurytrialsusingmonitored DAR

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THE THIRD BRANCH Atty. Dave Perlman has joined the Office of Judicial Education in the newly created position of Judicial multitude of municipal judge and court clerk education Education Specialist. In this new position, Perlman will take seminars during his judicial career and with the Office of over responsibilities dedicated to municipal judicial Judicial Education. education, but he will also work in the development of ancillary educational resources for circuit court judges. Kat Carpenter Prior to joining the Office of Judicial Education, Perlman was an assistant attorney general at the Wisconsin Office of Court Operations Department of Justice, for 28 years. Katherine “Kat” Carpenter (formerly Dellenbach) joined In that position, he coordinated the Office of Court Operations as a Legal Advisor on training programs for both police August 20, 2018, replacing Marcia Vandercook. and prosecutors. His areas of Previously, Carpenter served as the Field Services expertise include constitutional law, Director for the Wisconsin State Public Defender, where she use of force, open records, and was as an administrative policy management liability. In addition, advisor and resource liaison for Perlman was an appellate lawyer public defender staff and with the department and argued attorneys throughout Wisconsin’s many 4th and 5th amendment cases 72 counties. to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals Carpenter comes to the and the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Director of State Courts Office as Perlman also wrote and hosted a an experienced project manager Dave Perlman quarterly video series “Roll Call with an emphasis in operations Law,” which was distributed to more management, policy drafting, than 600 police departments around the state. program implementation, and Perlman also consults at Fox Valley Technical College, training. She has previously giving presentations around the country on search and worked as a Communications seizure issues relevant to the prosecution of Internet Crimes Director in the Wisconsin State Katherine “Kat” against Children cases. Legislature and as a supervising Carpenter An honors graduate of Northwestern University, Perlman attorney at the University of received his law degree from the Indiana University Law Wisconsin Law School, where she practiced criminal School. appeals and post-conviction law. The previous position of municipal judicial education Carpenter currently serves as a mentor for young women manager was held by Todd Meurer, who left that role in at Madison College. Outside of mentoring, she has March. Meuer had joined the Office of Judicial Education in previously served on a number of nonprofit boards and 2016 after retiring from a lengthy career as a circuit court committees, including the Wisconsin Women’s Network, commissioner. Community Shares of Wisconsin, and Zonta Club of Meurer, who still serves as a municipal judge for the Madison. She received her bachelor’s degree from the UW- Town of Madison and Town of Verona Joint Municipal La Crosse and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin  Court, had served on the Municipal Judge Benchbook Law School.

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During his career, Martin served as interim administrator of Wisconsin under John Jardine, starting in 1970. Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility, the Martin took time to volunteer with local groups, including predecessor of the Office of Lawyer Regulation. the Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, and the Board of Before becoming a judge, Martin Safe Harbor Child Advocacy. was known for his accomplishments as an athlete and football coach. He Judge Patrick J. Madden played three sports competitively in both high school and college and Iron County Circuit Court was recognized by both Racine Judge Patrick J. Madden, who served on the Iron County Park High School and the Circuit Court for more than 30 years, passed away University of Dubuque for his unexpectedly in his sleep at home on July 9, according to an achievements. According to an obituary published in the Ironwood Daily Globe. He was 69. obituary, Martin still holds a school The Green Bay native was a pure academic, according record for most interceptions in a to the obituary. single season and for most career “He was a champion for social change, and a staple in interceptions at 24. his community. He had a voracious appetite for both the His high school and college Judge James L. Martin consumption and sharing of knowledge, regardless of coaching background helped earn subject. At age 13, he became one of the youngest Eagle him a spot as an assistant football coach for the University see Obituaries on page 39 and draftedlanguageforaSupremeCourtrulespetition support ofacommittee,shedesignedandtestedtheprogram system initiatives,suchasthecourtinterpreterprogram.In and educationalprograms. the formofcommitteework,memos,phoneconsultation, clerks, andcircuitcourtjudges,in court, registersinprobate,juvenile guidance fortheclerksofcircuit many years,providinginvaluable Committee ofChiefJudgesfor Judicial Education. Programs (CCAP)andtheOffice of Consolidated Court Automation number ofdepartments,including worked collaborativelywitha the circuitcourts.Indoingso,she numerous significantissuesfacing Director ofState CourtsOffice on development supportforthe among manyothers,throughoutthestate. including judges,clerksofcircuitcourtandstaff, impact onthecourtsystemandindividualsitserves, Operations. Duringthattime,shehadanimmeasurable a circuitcourtlegaladvisorwiththeOffice ofCourt walk, butnowIfigurecangobacktobed,”Nodolfsaid. Court Operations Circuit CourtLegal Advisor, Officeof Marcia Vandercook solving them.” with youthbecausepreventingproblems isbetterthan in IronCounty. In1998,hetoldthe Third Branch,“Iwork Peace CorpsinElSalvador. to hisserviceasacircuitcourtjudge,Maddenservedthe the recipientofaBushFoundationFellowship Award. Prior University ofNevada(MasterJudicialStudies), andwas Wadham College-Oxford(AdvancedJurisprudence), from theUW LawSchool.Maddenalsohelddegreesfrom his Masters’ degreefromUW-Madison, andhislawdegree counsel. served asIronCountyDistrict Attorney andcorporation in 1987,andre-electedfivetimes.Priortothat,hehad remainder ofhislife.” remained activeintheBoyScoutsof America forthe Scouts inthehistoryofstate Wisconsin. He promoted educationandathletics, butmostimportantly, weddings freeof charge, substituteteaching at do nice,youget nice”andwasknownforofficiating he promotedkindness. Patricklivedbythecredo of“you the Vandercook playedakeyroleindevelopingseveralcourt She alsoservedasstaff tothe Vandercook providedlegalservices,researchandpolicy Marcia Vandercook retiredinSeptember, after19yearsas “My dogswillstillwakemeup,andwe’llgofora RETIREMENTS OBITUARIES Madden wasknownasapassionate advocateforchildren Madden wasagraduateoftheUW-Green Bay, received Madden’s obituary, publishedinthestated:“He Madden wasfirstappointedtothebenchin1986,elected Hurley K-12 School iftheywere short-staffed, continued frompage 38 continued frompage 28 Marcia Vandercook travel, read,volunteer, andgarden. office plantsalive.Inretirement, Vandercook plansto guidance, camaraderie,andimpressiveabilitytokeepthe Vandercook’s colleaguesalreadyreportmissinghersound elaborate doodlesduringlegaleducationprograms. pursue herfavoritework-relatedhobby–producingpagesof system. Sheisalsosadtherewillbefeweropportunitiesto with dedicatedpublicservantsineverypartofthecourt unpopular topics,Marciawasjustthebest.” Bellows admiringly, “Really, whenitcametoarcaneand Forfeiture, FineandSurcharge Tables.” SaidDCA Jon editions oftheever-popular “Wisconsin CircuitCourtFee, sealing, expunging,recordsretention,andhelpedwithten penned anumberofillustrative,best-sellingmemoson We’ve BeenHidingfrom You ontheInternet.” Shealso But Were Afraid to Ask,” and“Buried Treasure: What “Everything You Wanted toKnow About PublicRecords delivered manyelectrifyingpresentations,including remembered forhertimeonthelecturecircuit,whereshe uptick inretirements,”Bousquetsaidjokingly. during thetransition,althoughofcoursetherewasthatslight demeanor forthefactthatnoonediedofhyperventilation Information Officer JeanBousquet.“IcreditMarcia’s calm the judiciary, courtstaff, andthebar, saidcourtsystemChief Supreme Courtrulechanges,anddevelopedpresentationsto successful rolloutofthatprogram. implementation ofstatewideeFilingwascrucialtothe funding sources. legislators indevelopinglanguageforstatutesandpossible an interpretercodeofethics.Shealsoworkedwith December 2019. prison. A thirdsuspect inthecasewassettogoon trialin parole andlater sentenced JamesLussierto15years in Joseph Lussierto lifeinprisonwithoutthepossibility of Following ajurytrial,Maddensentenced Ricard Allen and in ruralIronCountyJanuary2018. case. Valliere’s remainswerefound notable Wayne Valliere, Jr. homicide Madden recentlypresidedoverthe According to WJFW-Rhinelander, of both.” community, ashewasthekeystone missed byhisfamilyand “papa.” Hewillbeprofoundly all else,alovingfatherandproud Criminal JuryInstructionCommittee. Education Committee,andthe Committee (PPAC), theJudicial Planning andPolicy Advisory the underdog,aloverofnature,roguetraveler, andabove businesses. Hewillbeforeverknownasanadvocatefor simply supportinglocalsportsteamsand teaching classesatGogebicCommunityCollege,and Madden servedasamemberofthe Vandercook saidshewillmissworkingcollaboratively Among theclerksandregisters, Vandercook maybebest Vandercook’s workwithCCAP onthedevelopmentand During histimeonthebench, “She helpedstaff theeFilingcommittee,drafted   Madden Judge PatrickJ.

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Spring/ NEWS AND NOTES continued from page 34 Summer Summer take cases at the state compensation rate, Scouts, and he has helped mentor 37 scouts Chief 2019Justice Patience2017 Drake Roggensack which was recently approved to go from to the rank of Eagle Scout over the years Director of State Courts $40 an hour to $70 an hour. and held various leadership positions with Hon. Randy R. Koschnick When the Public Defender’s office still the Scouts. Neimon has also coached soccer, can’t find an attorney, judges are forced to basketball, baseball, Editor Tom Sheehan appoint counsel at a higher rate at county karate and curling. expense, Anderson said. Sometimes, those Associate Editor attorneys will have to drive three to five The Associated Anna Yarish hours just to meet with their clients, Press reported Feb. Contributing Writers especially in rural areas. The process of 20 on a Court of Carmel Capati finding an attorney can drag on for weeks, Appeals decision Kat Carpenter Carol Hassler potentially affecting constitutional rights of that a circuit court Tom Sheehan defendants, Anderson said. judge’s decision to Anna Yarish become Facebook Graphic Design/Layout Bill Weigel, who for the past 22 years of friends with a party Sara Foster his 34 year legal career has supervised in a case he was litigation for the Office of Lawyer hearing created at

The Third Branch The Third Branch is a Regulation, has been appointed to serve on least the appearance Michael Neimon publication of the Director of the American Bar Association (ABA) of bias. State Courts Office, providing Standing Committee on Public Protection in The District Three decision ordered the news of interest to the the Provision of child-custody case to be re-heard by a Wisconsin court system. Legal Services. different circuit court judge. The committee According to the AP report: “The case, Send questions, comments, and article ideas to: assists and which is the first of its kind in the state, Tom Sheehan monitors each contemplates whether judges’ use of social Court Information Officer state’s client media can compromise them. In its ruling, P.O. Box 1688 protection the 3rd District Court of Appeals didn’t lay Madison, WI 53701-1688 mechanisms, out any bright-line rules for judges, but it phone including warned them to use caution when engaging (608) 261-6640 unauthorized with people online to avoid the appearance e-mail [email protected] practice of law of impropriety. ‘We caution that judges initiatives and should recognize that online interactions, programs to like real-world interactions, must be treated Bill Weigel reimburse with a degree of care,’ appellate Judge Mark financial losses Seidl wrote in the ruling.” caused by lawyer misappropriation of client funds, such as the State Bar of Wisconsin’s On Feb. 20, Chief Judge Maxine A. Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection. Weigel White, Milwaukee County Circuit Court, said his motivation is “to protect the public was featured in a by serving the profession.” Weigel has also segment on Black served as the City of Verona’s municipal History Month that judge since 2004. aired Feb. 20 on WISN-TV. White is Third Judicial District Court the First Judicial Administrator Michael Neimon was recently Administrative recognized with a Silver Beaver Award, the District’s first highest adult honor that can be presented by African-American a local council of the Boy Scouts of chief judge and America. second female chief Neimon, a longtime Scoutmaster for judge. Troop 49 based in Summit, received the award during a Feb. 28 ceremony in “I’ve been Chief Judge Maxine A. Waukesha. The award was issued by the breaking a lot of White Boy Scouts National Court of Honor on ceilings but not by behalf of the Potawatomi Area Council. myself. A lot of people had a lot of heavy The Silver Beaver is awarded to Scouters lifting, a lot of hammers way before me, so of exceptional character who have provided I’ve been given this opportunity. I’ve had distinguished service within a council. mentors like the honorable Vel Phillips,” Neimon has been active as a volunteer in White told the news station.  scouting for 14 years, including as a Cubmaster in Pack 73 and as a Scoutmaster in Troop 49. Two of his sons are Eagle

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