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Justice-in-Residence Louis Butler ‘77 chosen as U.S. District Judge

Louis B. Butler, Jr., the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Justice-in-Residence and an alumnus of the Class of 1977, has been nominated by President Barack Obama as U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.

Butler, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, and has been on the faculty at the Law School since 2008.

Butler’s nomination for the seat vacated by Judge John Shabaz will now go to the U.S. Senate for confirmation.

See articles on Butler’s nomination in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 
and Wisconsin State Journal.




  

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