Candidates for Board of Governors

The following names were submitted by nomination petition for election to the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors is the State Bar's policymaking body. Governors serve two-year terms.

Districts 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, and 16 will elect governors in 2018. District 2 (Milwaukee) elects five; District 6 (Waukesha) elects two; District 9 (Dane) elects four; and all other districts elect one.

State Bar election ballots will be mailed no later than April 13, 2018, and must be returned by April 27, 2018.

Persons elected will take office July 1, 2018.

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District 2 (five vacancies)

• Karen M. Bauer, Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee Inc., Milwaukee, UW 2009
• Andrew P. Beilfuss, Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, Marquette 2005
• Brittany C. Grayson, Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office, Milwaukee, Marquette 2011
• Elizabeth K. Miles, Davis & Kuelthau SC, Milwaukee, Marquette 2009
• Krista G. LaFave Rosolino, Warshafsky, Rotter, Tarnoff & Bloch SC, Milwaukee, Tulane University 2013

District 4 (one vacancy)

• Mary Lynne Donohue, Sheboygan, UW 1979

District 6 (two vacancies)

• Jesse B. Blocher, Habush Habush & Rottier SC, Waukesha, Marquette 2006
• Timothy T. Kay, Kay & Kay Law Firm, Brookfield, Marquette 1984

District 8 (one vacancy)

• Lisa M. Hirschman, Hirschman Law SC, Eau Claire, UW 2013
• Joel D. Skinner, Skinner and Associates, Hudson, Hamline 1984

District 9 (four vacancies)

• Kathleen Chung, Madison, Marquette 2001
• Jeff A. Goldman, DeWitt Ross & Stevens SC, Madison, UW 2002
• Anthony J. Gray, Institute for Global Ethics, Madison, UW 2007
• Patricia Epstein Putney, Bell Moore & Richter SC, Madison, Brooklyn Law School 1989
• Laura Skilton Verhoff, Stafford Rosenbaum LLP, Madison, UW 1997

District 10 (one vacancy)

• Charles (Chuck) Stertz, Outagamie County District Attorney’s Office, Appleton, UW 2009

District 12 (one vacancy)

• Jane E. Bucher, State Public Defenders Office, Monroe, UW 2010

District 14 (one vacancy)

• Sherry D. Coley, Davis & Kuelthau SC, Green Bay, Marquette 2003

District 16 (one vacancy)

• Amanda J. Ley, State Public Defenders Office, Wausau, Washington College of Law, American University 2011