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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Tim Kiefer |
| Address | 205 Kearney Way
Waunakee, Wisconsin , United States |
| Email | None |
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| Info | I am a lawyer and a Democratic political activist who lives in Waunakee, Wisconsin.
I am active in local politics, and in 2008 I ran for the Wisconsin legislature. I earned my bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison and my law degree from Harvard Law School. I work as a Dane County prosecutor, where I have tried more than 20 jury trials and have successfully argued a case in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
2008 campaign
In 2008, I ran for the Wisconsin State Assembly. During my campaign, I advocated progressive change and state government reform. Here are some of the issues I supported on the campaign trail:
• Getting smart on crime by emphasizing lower-cost and more effective alternatives to incarceration.
• Ensuring quality health care for everyone in Wisconsin.
• Reducing Wisconsin’s legislative salaries so that they would be in line with the legislative salaries in states of comparable size. To set an example on this issue, I pledged to voluntarily reduce my own legislative salary by 50 percent.
• Guaranteeing that domestic partners of state government and University of Wisconsin employees get the same employment benefits as married couples.
During the campaign, I was endorsed by the Wisconsin State Journal editorial board, who called me “a strong voice for reform.” The State Journal compared me to “a young Russ Feingold” and said that I was “more than willing to stand by his convictions and lead through example.”
I lost the Democratic primary held in September 2008. The pain of losing was substantially lessened because the voters picked a great candidate in the primary – Kelda Helen Roys.
I endorsed Kelda in the November 2008 general election. She won that election and she has done an outstanding job in the State Assembly. She has advocated increasing the alcohol tax to provide funding to combat alcohol-related crime, and she has protected from demolition a historic landmark building owned by the state government.
Citizen activist
I am a member of the Democratic Party of Dane County, where I serve on the executive board and hold the office of secretary.
I have volunteered for a number of Democratic political campaigns, including the 1998 congressional campaign of Dane County Executive Rick Phelps, the 2004 presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry, the 2002 and 2006 gubernatorial campaigns of Governor Jim Doyle, and the 2008 campaign of President Barack Obama.
Around the world and back again
I grew up in Kenosha County, Wisconsin and graduated from Central High School.
I take great pride that I am the first person from my family to go to college. I helped put myself through school at UW-Madison by working as a dishwasher at a sorority house, a lifeguard, and a store clerk. My grandmother Lena Corsini, who herself had just a sixth grade education, gave me some of her savings to help her grandson get the college education that she never had for herself.
I graduated from UW-Madison in 1993 with a BA in history. I spent my junior year abroad in Madrid, Spain. My senior thesis was on Joseph Davies, a Wisconsin attorney who served as ambassador to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
In 1998, I graduated from Harvard Law School. Soon after graduation, I clerked for a federal district court judge. During the 2000-01 academic year, I was a Luce Scholar at Peking University Law School in Beijing, China, where I taught American contract law to Chinese law students.
Upon my return to Wisconsin, I worked for several years as a civil litigator for a large Wisconsin law firm and then for the Wisconsin Department of Justice. In January 2005, I temporarily left the practice of law to a work as a US State Department diplomat. I was stationed in Washington, Mexico, and Iraq. In October 2006, I resigned from the State Department because of my opposition to the Bush Administration’s Iraq War policy.
After leaving the State Department, I returned to Wisconsin to resume the practice of law. I now live in Waunakee, a small town just north of Madison.
Dane County prosecutor
In January 2007, I joined the Dane County District Attorney’s Office as an assistant district attorney. Since joining the office I have tried more than 20 jury trials on charges including bank fraud, drunk driving, domestic violence, and first degree intentional homicide. In 2009, I argued a probable cause to arrest case in the Wisconsin Supreme Court and won a unanimous decision in favor of the State.
I’m proud to be a union member and I believe in the labor movement. I belong to the Association of State Prosecutors, which represents all assistant district attorneys in the state of Wisconsin.
My heritage
The Kiefers have been in Wisconsin longer than Wisconsin has been a state in the Union. My ancestor Peter Kiefer immigrated to the Wisconsin Territory from Germany in 1846, two years before Wisconsin became a state in 1848.
The mother’s side of my family is from the province of Modena in northern Italy. They settled in the Chicago suburb of Highwood, which through most of the twentieth century was an enclave of Italians from Modena.
My family
My father David is a telephone lineman and my mother Karen is a school secretary. My mother is also the only person in my family to ever hold elected office – she was a school board member at Bristol Grade School in the 1980s.
My brother Randy is a self-employed handyman. My brother Chad followed my dad’s footsteps and works as a telephone lineman. My sister Darice is an Air Force Academy graduate who now works as a business analyst for a mining company.
My name
My full name is Timothy David Kiefer. I was named after timothy grass, which my dad helped cultivate when he was growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm. (I am forever grateful that my dad was not inspired by alfalfa.)
I am proud that my name includes two Biblical names. Timothy was a “beloved son, and faithful in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 4:17. David is my favorite Biblical hero because he persevered and tried his best to do God’s will despite sometimes failing along the way.
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