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Eastern District U.S. Magistrate Judges
Education:
J.D. Conferred: Marquette University Law School, 1973
Appointed United States Magistrate Judge: 1995
Summary of Career Preceding Judgeship: Davis & Kuelthau S.C., 1984-1995; First Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1982-1984; Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1975-1982; Goldberg, Previant & Uelmen, 1973-1975.
Other Pertinent Biographical Data: Member, State Bar of Wisconsin; instructor, National Advocacy Center, Columbia, S.C., civil and criminal trial advocacy courses; member, Thomas E. Fairchild Inn, American Inns of Court; civil and criminal trial advocacy courses; participant and lecturer, CLE courses.
Education:
J.D. Conferred: University of Wisconsin, 1967
Appointed United States Magistrate Judge: 1979
Summary of Career Preceding Judgeship: Chernov, Croen & Goodstein S.C. and predecessor firms, 1968-1979; law clerk, Hon. Myron L. Gordon, United States District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1967-1968.
Other Pertinent Biographical Data: Chair, Federal Judicial Center Magistrate Judges Education Committee, 1990-1998; member, Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Magistrate Judges System, 1993-1999; member, Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Panel for Eastern District of Wisconsin; chair, Advisory Committee of Local Rules and Practice for Eastern District of Wisconsin; member, University of Wisconsin Law School Alumni Association Board of Directors, 1989-1998; member, Federal Magistrate Judges Association, Executive Committee, 2000-2004, president, 2004-2005; State Bar of Wisconsin (Board of Governors, 1975-1977; president, Young Lawyers Division, 1975-1976); member, Milwaukee Bar Association (secretary, 1979-1982; Executive Board, 1978-1979); president, Milwaukee Young Lawyers Association, 1976-1977; member, American Bar Association; Pro Bono Award Winner, Gene and Ruth Posner Foundation, 1988; instructor and panelist at numerous Federal Judicial Center seminars, University of Wisconsin and Marquette Law School programs and other continuing legal education seminars.
Rules, Policies, Protocol, etc.:
1. The civil assignment system in the district includes the magistrate judges in the random draw. This means that a civil case will be assigned to a magistrate judge at the time of filing. The parties are required to return the consent form to the Clerk of Court, either consenting or declining to consent to the full exercise of jurisdiction by the magistrate judge. If the parties consent, the case will be tried before the magistrate judge, either by jury or to the court, and an appeal may be taken directly to the Seventh Circuit. If the parties do not consent, the case will be reassigned at random to a district court judge.
2. If the case is before this court on consent, a firm trial date will be given. Since the Magistrate judges are not authorized to conduct the trials of felony cases, a civil case will not be bumped from the calendar in order to try a felony case.
3. Magistrate judges are available to conduct settlement conferences in civil cases assigned to district judges or each other. If counsel believe that judicial intervention may be helpful in resolving the case, they should consider requesting that the judge refer the matter to a magistrate judge for such a conference.
4. The Local Rules for the Eastern District of Wisconsin were revised, effective February 2001. All attorneys practicing in the district must be familiar with the local rules. They can be found at the district court’s Web site, ww.wied.uscourts.gov.
Education:
J.D. Conferred: Marquette University Law School, 1977
Appointed United States Magistrate Judge: 1994
Summary of Career Preceding Judgeship: Law clerk to the Honorable
Robert W. Warren, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin,
1977-1979; Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Wisconsin,
1979-1984, 1988-1989; United States Attorney, Eastern District of Wisconsin,
1987-1988; First Assistant United States Attorney, 1984-1987, 1989-1991;
Deputy Attorney General, State of Wisconsin, 1991-1993; Gimbel, Reilly,
Guerin and Brown, 1993-1994.
Other Pertinent Biographical Data: American Bar Association, State Bar
of Wisconsin, Chair, Special Committee on Professionalism, 1988-1999,
chair, Lawyer Dispute Resolution Committee, 1997-present; co-Chair, Legal
Education Commission, 1994-1996; secretary, State Bar of Wuisconsin, 1990-1992;
Board of Governors, 1992-1994; Bench/Bar Committee, 1985-1990; Seventh
Circuit Bar Association, chair, Rules and 1991-1994; chair, Meeting Arrangements
Committee, Wisconsin, 1987-1990; Milwaukee Bar Association co-Chair, MBA
Community Relations Committee, 1998-2003, vice-chair, MBA Community Relations
Committee, 2003-present, member, 1998-present; MBA Professionalism Committee,
1995-2000; American Law Institute, 1996-present; Federal Magistrate Judges’
Association (FMJA), 1994-present; FJMA Circuit Director, 1997-2000; Association
for Women Lawyers; National Association for Women Judges; Board of Attorneys
Professional Responsibility District II Committee, 1986-1994; Civil Justice
Reform Act Advisory Committee, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1991-1994;
American Law Institute, 1995-present; MBA Judicial Selection Committee,
2001-2004; Magistrate Judges’ Advisory Committee, 2006-present.
Education: J.D. Conferred: Marquette University Law School, 1974; B.A.: Marquette University, 1967
Current Rotational Assignment: Part-time Magistrate Judge
Summary of Career Preceding Judgeship: Magistrate Judge, 1975-present.
Other Pertinent Biographical Data: American and Brown County Bar Associations; American and Wisconsin Trial Lawyers Associations; born July 2, 1945.