POSTED: Monday, May 25th, 2009 at 1:00 am

BY: dmc-admin

Even at age 4, Marquette Law School graduate Allison E. Cimpl-Wiemer knew she was going to be a lawyer.

After all, her grandfather Richard F. Cimpl has been an attorney for nearly 60 years and her father is Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Dennis R. Cimpl.

“From a very young age, I think I was groomed,” said Cimpl-Wiemer, who was sworn in with 150 of her Marquette classmates on May 18. “Instead of playing house, we would play court with Sesame Street characters on trial, so this has always been my goal.”

While Cimpl-Wiemer sought numerous convictions of Big Bird as a child, she will officially begin her career as an attorney with Quarles & Brady LLP in Milwaukee as a commercial litigator.

With the firm delaying start dates for incoming associates until January 2010, Cimpl-Wiemer will take a few months to transition into the family trade.

She said she was undecided as to whether she wants to follow in her father’s footsteps and someday serve on the judiciary.

“I just want to get my career started right now and it is one step at a time,” she said.
But the graduate’s father and grandfather had their own takes on whether the new attorney should eventually pursue a seat on the bench.

Cimpl, who became a judge in 2005, suggested that his daughter already has the more prosperous job.

“She’s going to make more money than I am,” said Cimpl, a 1975 graduate of Marquette Law School.

Richard Cimpl, who graduated from Marquette in 1949, could not pass up the opportunity to take a playful swipe at his son.

“Who would want to be a judge?” he joked.

Beyond her bloodlines in the legal profession, Cimpl-Wiemer also married into the profession in 2007, when she wed attorney Jamie F. Wiemer.

Judge Cimpl was a movant for Wiemer upon his graduation from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2006. Wiemer is a criminal defense attorney at Alex Flynn & Associates S.C. in Milwaukee.

“Now the only problem is when we get together, my poor wife gets so bored because all we do is talk law,” Judge Cimpl said.

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