By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//April 27, 2015//
By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//April 27, 2015//
A Milwaukee trial lawyer will be the next president-elect of the State Bar Board of Governors.
Francis Deisinger with Reinhard Boerner Van Deuren SC defeated Kevin Lyons of Davis & Kuelthau SC 2,290 to 2,106 votes, according to election results from the State Bar.
Deisinger’s term as president-elect begins July 1. He will serve as the bar’s president the following year, succeeding Ralph Cagle.
Also on Friday, Paul Swanson, of Steinhilber, Swanson, Mares, Marone & McDermott, Oshkosh, was elected treasurer. He defeated Timothy O’Brien of Bakke Norman SC 2,412-1,985.
Thomas Bertz of Anderson O’Brien of Bertz, Skrenes & Golla LLP, Stevens Point, won a three-year term as the State Bar’s Judicial Council appointee. He defeated Joseph Russel of von Briesen & Roper SC, Milwaukee, 2,560-1,771. Bertz is chair of the Judicial Council. His term on the council ends in June.
Also, 18 governors were elected to serve two-year terms beginning July 1:
District 1
Steven Harvey of Wassel & Schuk LLP, Delavan
District 2
Daniel Blinka of Godfrey & Kahn SC, Milwaukee
Milton Childs Sr., State Public Defender’s Office, Milwaukee
Michael J. Cohen, Messner Tierney Fisher & Nichols SC, Milwaukee
Hannah Dugan of Law offices of Hannah C. Dugan LLC, Milwaukee
Martin Gagne of Gagne & O’Halloran LLC, Milwaukee
Gregg Herman of Loeb & Herman SC, Milwaukee
Nicholas Zales of Zales Law Office, Milwaukee
District 3
Peggy Lautenschlager, ofLautenschlager Law Office, Fond du Lac
District 5
Bruce Brovold of Kostner, Koslo & Brovold SC, Arcadia
District 6
Daniel Fay of Oakton Avenue Law Offices SC, Pewaukee
District 7
John Orton of Curran, Hollenbeck & Orton SC, Mauston
District 9
Truscenialyn Brooks of Perkins Cole LLP, Madison
Douglas Buck of Foley & Lardner LLP, Madison
Jeff Goldman of DeWitt Ross & Stevens SC, Madison
District 11
Howard Bichler, St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, Webster
District 13
Robert Barrington, Dodge County District Attorney’s Office, Beaver Dam
District 15
Kelly Mould, Johnson Bank, Racine