Walker appoints new Outagamie DA

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//September 8, 2017//

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Gov. Scott Walker has tapped a deputy prosecutor to be Outagamie County district attorney.

Walker announced that he had appointed Melinda Tempelis to fill a spot left vacant when Walker appointed outgoing DA Carrie Schneider to fill a spot on the Outagamie County Circuit Court.

Tempelis has been a prosecutor in Outagamie County for nearly 15 years, 10 of which were spent as a deputy district attorney. She earned her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2002.

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