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The Wisconsin circuit courts were established by the Constitution of Wisconsin, ratified by referendum May 8, 1848. There were originally five circuit courts—each with one judge. In the first version of the constitution, and, until 1853, the circuit court judges also served as the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The number of courts was expanded via ...
The circuit court system is composed of 69 circuits, with 66 circuits serving a single county, and three circuits serving two counties each. [3] Buffalo and Pepin counties share a circuit, as do Florence and Forest counties, and Shawano and Menominee counties. [3] 26 circuit courts are served by a single judge. [3]
This category is for articles about those individuals who have served or who are currently serving as Wisconsin circuit court judges. Pages in category "Wisconsin circuit court judges" The following 168 pages are in this category, out of 168 total.
Courts of Wisconsin include: State courts of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Supreme Court (7 justices) [1] Wisconsin Court of Appeals (4 districts, 16 judges) [2] Wisconsin Circuit Court (9 judicial administrative districts (1-5; 7-10), 69 circuits, 261 judges) [3] Wisconsin Municipal Courts [4] Federal courts located in Wisconsin. United States District ...
The court record summaries provided by the system are all public records under Wisconsin open records law sections 19.31-19.39 of the Wisconsin Statutes. WCCA was created in response to an increasing number of requests for court records from district attorneys , sheriffs’ departments, and other court business partners.
In 1992, White was appointed to the Wisconsin Circuit Court in Milwaukee County by then-Governor Tommy Thompson, a Republican. [2] White served as a deputy chief judge of the court prior to 2015. In 2015, the Wisconsin Supreme Court appointed White as the court's chief judge. White is the first African-American chief judge in the court's history.
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals is an intermediate appellate court that reviews contested decisions of the Wisconsin circuit courts. The Court of Appeals was created in August 1978 [ 1 ] to alleviate the Wisconsin Supreme Court's rising number of appellate cases.
The timing coincided with a significant reorganization of the Wisconsin court system. On August 1, 1978, eight months after he took office, the existing Wisconsin county courts and circuit courts were combined into the current system of Wisconsin circuit courts; LaRocque became a judge of the Marathon circuit. He won re-election in 1984 without ...