Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Election

The top two finishers.

Milwaukee circuit court judge election.

With a strong history of serving his community including work with nonprofits we believe blomme would be an excellent addition to our judicial bench since he will look at plaintiffs and defendants in their totality as opposed to the incumbent judge paul c. The partisan primary was scheduled on august 11 2020. Milwaukee county wisconsin held general elections for circuit court judges on april 2 2019 if more than two candidates had filed to run per seat a primary would have been held on february 19 2019. Three candidates are running for a six year term as a judge on the milwaukee county circuit court.

Last april milwaukee county voters rejected another walker appointee andrew jones in favor of challenger danielle shelton an assistant public defender. The shepherd express enthusiastically endorses brett blomme for milwaukee circuit court judge. Dedinsky was a longtime prosecutor in milwaukee county before walker tapped him as chief legal counsel to the department of agriculture trade and consumer protection in 2017 and as judge on dec. Milwaukee county is home to over 950 000 people living in one of 19 communities which range in size from the city of milwaukee with 595 000 residents to the village of river hills with roughly 1 600 residents.

The court comprises the first judicial district of the state of wisconsin. Three candidates in the race for the milwaukee county circuit court branch 5 bench will compete in the feb. The court consists of 47 branches and has 22 court commissioners. Circuit court judges earn 141 773 annually.

This is part two of a two part series. They asked milwaukee county circuit judge kevin martens to find that tuesday s decision from the wisconsin elections commission violated state law and order that their names appear on the feb. The top two vote getters in the primary will advance to the april 7th general election. There are nearly 150 000 cases filed annually in the court.