Richard J. Sankovitz

Court

Milwaukee County Circuit Court

Milwaukee County Safety Building, 821 W. State St., Milwaukee, WI 53233-1427

Court Clerk: Dena Nardi

Phone: 414-278-4490

Fax: 414-223-1264

Judicial Biography

Chair, Judicial Benchbook Volume I: Criminal; Chair, First Judicial District Local Rules Revision Project; Chair, State Bar of Wisconsin Access to Justice Study Committee, former Faculty Member, State of Wisconsin Judicial College; former Chair, Supreme Court Planning and Policy Advisory Committee Planning Subcommittee; member, American Bar Association: member, State Bar of Wisconsin (former Chair of Bench/Bar and Judicial Independence Committees and member and subcommittee chair of Judicial Education Commission); member, Milwaukee Bar Association (member, Legal Services to Indigent Committee); member, Association for Women Lawyers; former member, Committee for a Diverse Judiciary; contributing author, Contract Law in Wisconsin, (State Bar CLE Books 3d ed. 2007) MYLA/LAW Volunteer Lawyer Project Outstanding Pro Bono Leadership Award, 2003; Association for Women Lawyers Pro Bono Award, 2001; MYLA/LAW Volunteer Lawyers Project Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Services by an individual Attorney, 1992, Wisconsin Law Journal Leaders in the Law Award, 2008

Educational background:

J.D. Conferred: Harvard Law School, 1983

Judicial tenure:

Appointed to Circuit Court: August 1996; Reelected 1997, 2003, 2009

Career Summary:

Law Clerk to the Hon. Terence T. Evans, United States District Court (now Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals) Judge, 1983-1984; associate, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., 1984-1986; associate and then shareholder, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C., 1986-1996. Areas of practice included business and commercial litigation, antitrust law, health care law, environmental and municipal litigation and appellate advocacy in the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh and Fourth Circuits and the United States Supreme Court.

Current judicial rotation:

Felony Division, Presiding Judge

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