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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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1999-01-03 |
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| Name | Shirley Abrahamson |
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Madison, Wisconsin , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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December 17, 1933
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| Died | December 19, 2020
(87 years)
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| Contributor | Sarnstrom |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Dec 21, 2020 03:02pm |
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| Info | Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Patrick Lucey in 1976. She was then the only woman to serve on the Court.
She won election to the Court in 1979 and re-election in 1989 and 1999. Since August 1, 1996, she has been chief justice and, in that capacity, serves as the administrative leader of the Wisconsin court system.
Before joining the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Abrahamson was in private practice in Madison for 14 years and was a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She is the past president of the National Conference of Chief Justices and past chair of the board of directors of the National Center for State Courts. The chief justice was chair of the National Institute of Justice, National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. She is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute and the board of directors of New York University (NYU) School of Law Institute of Judicial Administration. She also has served on the State Bar of Wisconsin's Commission on the Delivery of Legal Services and American Bar Association's Coalition for Justice.
Born and raised in New York City, Chief Justice Abrahamson received her bachelor's degrees from NYU in 1953, her law degree from Indiana University Law School in 1956, and a doctorate of law in American legal history in 1962 from the UW Law School. She is the recipient of 14 honorary doctor of laws degrees and the Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. In 2004, she received the American Judicature Society’s Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. Chief Justice Abrahamson is featured in Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia (John R. Vile ed. 2003).
Chief Justice Abrahamson and her husband, Seymour, have a son, Daniel.
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