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Tag Archives: Jeffrey Kremers

Evers re-forms pardons board Walker dropped

Gov. Tony Evers re-created Wisconsin's pardons board on Thursday, fulfilling a campaign promise to again consider granting pardons after his Republican predecessor, Scott Walker, halted the process eight years ago.

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Chief judge, Walker counsel duel over block grant

Gov. Walker’s proposed Supreme Court block grant will give the court system flexibility in spending for the coming biennium, however some are concerned that the block grant still leaves the court system struggling to make ends meet.

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DA won’t seek investigator in John Doe probe

Milwaukee County's top prosecutor won't ask a judge to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate his rationale for launch a probe into whether conservative groups illegally coordinated with Republican Gov. Scott Walker's campaign.

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State justices select chief judges

The Wisconsin Supreme Court announced Friday that it has selected Rock County Circuit Court James Daley and Judge James Duvall, who serves both Buffalo and Pepin county circuit courts, as new members of the Committee of Chief Judges, effective Aug. 1.

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Ashley shares lessons learned

Not long after Judge Carl Ashley took the bench, he was at a church festival when a man approached saying the judge had sent him to prison.

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Milwaukee County Court Commissioner charged with tax fraud

A criminal complaint was filed in Dane County on Wednesday against Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Geneva E. McKinley, charging her with two counts of filing fraudulent income tax returns. According to the complaint, McKinley filed tax returns for 2006 and 2007 that understated her income by more than $100,000. McKinley claimed adjusted gross income of $19,391 in 2007 and negative-$18,226 ...

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Who’s Doing What

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. announces the addition of David G. Peterson, an experienced litigator, to the firm’s expanding Waukesha office. Peterson joins the firm as a shareholder in the Litigation Practice. He has close to 20 years of experience in commercial litigation matters. Peterson was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Bar Association. Peterson received ...

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