Political Alignment: Liberal

Justice Susan M. Crawford was elected to the Supreme Court in 2025, having previously served as a judge in the Dane County Circuit Court. Before her judicial career, she was a civil litigator in private practice, chief legal counsel for former Gov. Jim Doyle, and an assistant attorney general at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, where she directed the criminal appeals unit.

Justice Janet C. Protasiewicz was elected as a Supreme Court justice in 2023 after serving as a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge. She previously worked for 25 years at the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office and has taught at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, S.C.

Justice Rebecca Frank Dallet was elected to the Supreme Court in 2018, after serving as a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge. Dallet previously was an associate dean of the Wisconsin Judicial College, an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School, a Milwaukee County assistant district attorney, and a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

Chief Justice Jill J. Karofsky was elected to the Supreme Court in 2020, having previously been a judge on the Dane County Circuit Court. Before becoming a judge, Karofsky was executive director of the Office of Crime Victim Services for the state Department of Justice, an assistant state attorney general, and Wisconsin’s first Violence Against Women Resource Prosecutor.