Mark Gundrum | |
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Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals District II | |
Assumed office November 4, 2011 | |
Appointed by | Scott Walker |
Preceded by | Daniel P. Anderson |
Wisconsin Circuit Court Judgefor the Waukesha circuit,branch 2 | |
In office August 1,2010 –November 4,2011 | |
Preceded by | Richard Congdon |
Succeeded by | Jennifer R. Dorow |
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 84th district | |
In office January 4,1999 –July 31,2010 | |
Preceded by | Mary Lazich |
Succeeded by | Mike Kuglitsch |
Personal details | |
Born | Milwaukee,Wisconsin,U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA,JD) |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United States |
Branch/service | United States Army U.S. Army Reserve |
Years of service | 2000–present |
Unit | Judge Advocate General's Corps |
Battles/wars | Iraq War |
Mark Gundrum (born March 20,1970) is an American lawyer and politician serving as a judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals for District II. [1] He previously served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1999 to 2010.
Born in Milwaukee,Wisconsin,Gundrum graduated from Catholic Memorial High School,where he played for the school's gridiron football team. [2] He received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [3]
Gundrum served on the Hales Corners,Wisconsin village board. He later worked as a staff attorney for Rudolph T. Randa,a judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. [4] He joined the United States Army Reserve in 2000,and was deployed to Iraq in 2008. [5]
In 1998,Gundrum won the race to succeed Mary Lazich in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican. [6] In the 2002 election,he defeated fellow state legislator Marc C. Duff,who ran against Gundrum due to redistricting. [7] While serving in the Wisconsin State Assembly,Gundrum worked with Steven Avery,who was exonerated after being falsely convicted of a sexual assault,to pass a criminal justice reform bill. [8] In 2010,Gundrum was elected as a Circuit Court judge for Waukesha County. He was soon thereafter appointed by Governor Scott Walker in 2011 to fill a vacancy on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. [9] Gundrum successfully ran for the seat in 2013 and was re-elected in 2019. [10]
Gundrum was named as one of Governor Scott Walker's finalists to replace Justice David Prosser,Jr. on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in June 2016. [11]
Gundrum and his wife,Mary,married in 1996. They are Catholic and have eight children,whom they homeschooled through Wisconsin Virtual Academy. Their youngest child was born with encephalocele and a facial cleft,which required surgery to correct at Boston Children's Hospital. [12] Gundrum appeared in the 2015 Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer ,detailing Avery's case.
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