In the United States,a district attorney (DA),county attorney,state's attorney,prosecuting attorney,commonwealth's attorney,state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor and/or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area,typically a county or a group of counties. The exact name and scope of the office varies by state. Alternative titles for the office include county attorney,solicitor,or county prosecutor. Generally,the prosecutor represents the people of the jurisdiction and in many states their authority stems from the state constitution. Unlike similar roles in other common law judicial systems,these are elected,and their holders usually have an allegiance to a political party or faction,rather than being held by a career civil servant appointed on merit in an independent process.
Scott Kevin Walker is an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as Milwaukee County executive from 2002 to 2010.
Foley &Lardner LLP is an international law firm founded in 1842. In terms of revenue,it ranked 48th on The American Lawyer's 2022 AmLaw 100 rankings of U.S. law firms,with over $1 billion in gross revenue in 2021.
John Henry Durham is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut from 2018 to 2021. By April 2019,the Trump administration assigned him to investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections,and in October 2020 he was appointed special counsel for the Department of Justice on that matter.
Scott Lawrence Fitzgerald is an American politician and former newspaper publisher. A Republican,he represents Wisconsin's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes many of Milwaukee's northern and western suburbs,such as Waukesha,West Bend,Brookfield,and Mequon. He represented the 13th district in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1995 to 2021.
Michael J. Gableman is an American lawyer and former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. A Republican,he has been described as a hard-line conservative.
John Theodore Chisholm is an American prosecutor and politician who has served as Milwaukee County District Attorney since 2007. A career prosecutor,Chisholm specialized in complex conspiracy prosecutions before his election as district attorney in 2006.
The 2012 Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election was a special election to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. It resulted in voters re-electing incumbent Republican governor Scott Walker over the Democratic candidate Tom Barrett by a larger margin than he had in 2010,in which Walker had also faced Barrett. Recall organizers opposed Walker's agenda,particularly his limiting of collective bargaining rights for state employees and they collected over 900,000 signatures to initiate the recall election process. There was also a recall for Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. She won her race,defeating Democrat Mahlon Mitchell,making her the first lieutenant governor to run in and survive a recall.
David J. Freed is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming that role,he was the District Attorney of Cumberland County,Pennsylvania.
David Alexander Clarke,Jr.,is an American former law enforcement official who served as Sheriff of Milwaukee County,Wisconsin,from 2002 to 2017.
Brad Schimel is an American prosecutor and judge. He was the 44th Attorney General of Wisconsin,serving from 2015 to 2019. He was defeated seeking re-election in 2018,and was subsequently appointed Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge in Waukesha County,Wisconsin,by Governor Scott Walker. Prior to winning election as Attorney General,Schimel was district attorney of Waukesha County.
John William Vaudreuil is an American lawyer. He was United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin during the presidency of Barack Obama.
Michael Brian Brennan is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He was first nominated on August 3,2017,by President Donald Trump,and was re-nominated in 2018. He was confirmed May 10,2018. He was previously a partner in the Milwaukee law firm Gass Weber Mullins LLC,and served 8 years as a Wisconsin Circuit Court judge.
Scott W. Brady is an American attorney who was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2021. Before becoming the U.S. Attorney,he was the head of litigation for Federated Investors. Brady was previously an Assistant United States Attorney in Pittsburgh,from 2004 to 2010,where he prosecuted white collar crime,violent crime and drug trafficking offenses. He was also an associate at Jones Day and at Reed Smith,where his practice focused on multi-district litigation,white collar criminal matters and internal investigations. Brady is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
McGregor William "Greg" Scott is an American lawyer and partner at the King &Spalding law firm. He served as the United States attorney for the Eastern District of California from 2017 to 2021. He was sworn in as a court-appointed U.S. attorney on December 29,2017,after previously serving in the position from 2003 to 2009 during the George W. Bush Administration. Prior to assuming his current role,Scott was a partner in the Sacramento office of Orrick,Herrington &Sutcliffe,where his practice focused on white collar criminal defense and corporate investigations. In 2008,he retired from the United States Army Reserve as a lieutenant colonel after 23 years of service.
Matthew Dean Krueger is an American lawyer. He served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 2018 to 2021. He was previously an Assistant United States Attorney for the same district. Krueger worked at the U.S. Attorney's office from 2013 to 2018. He was previously an associate at Sidley Austin and a Bristow Fellow in the United States Department of Justice,Office of the Solicitor General. Krueger clerked for Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Minnesota Law School,where he served as editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Law Review. On February 15,2018,his nomination to be the United States Attorney was confirmed by voice vote. He was sworn in on February 22,2018. On February 8,2021,he along with 55 other Trump-era attorneys were asked to resign. On February 11,he announced his resignation,effective February 20,2021.
Jill Judith Karofsky is an American attorney,judge,and justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Karofsky served as a Wisconsin Circuit Court judge in Dane County from 2017 until her 2020 election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The 2020 Wisconsin Fall General Election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 3,2020. All of Wisconsin's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election,as well as sixteen seats in the Wisconsin State Senate and all 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Voters also chose ten electors to represent them in the Electoral College,which then participated in selecting the president of the United States. The 2020 Fall Partisan Primary was held on August 11,2020.
The 2022 Wisconsin fall general election was held in the U.S. state of Wisconsin on November 8,2022. All of Wisconsin's partisan executive and administrative offices were up for election,as well as one of Wisconsin's U.S. Senate seats,Wisconsin's eight seats in the United States House of Representatives,the seventeen odd-numbered seats in the Wisconsin State Senate,and all 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly. The 2022 Wisconsin fall primary was held on August 9,2022.
John Luman Smith is an American attorney who has served in the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) as an assistant United States Attorney,acting United States Attorney,and head of the department's Public Integrity Section. He was also the chief prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers,an international tribunal at The Hague tasked with investigating and prosecuting war crimes in the Kosovo War.
