2024 Judge Rudolph T. Randa Lecture and Award

Please join the Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society at the Milwaukee Club on December 5, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. for a ceremony honoring Supreme Court of Wisconsin Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley with the Judge Rudolph T. Randa Award.

Each year, the Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society presents the Judge Rudolph T. Randa Award to an individual whose work on behalf of the rule of law and the legal principles our Society exists to uphold is as unquestioned as it is longstanding. Judge Randa, the Award’s namesake, served on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. He was a friend and patron of the Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter; but more importantly he lived the principles that most animate citizens in a free republic and, as a judge, scrupulously adhered to the law as written.

Past award winners include Michael W. Grebe, Richard M. Esenberg, Judge William Griesbach, Judge Diane Sykes, and Justice Daniel Kelly. This year the recipient of the Award is Justice Rebecca Bradley of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Justice Bradley, a Milwaukee native, was elected to the Supreme Court in 2016 after being appointed by Gov. Scott Walker in 2015. She is the first Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice to have served as an intermediate appellate court judge as well as a circuit court judge. Before joining the Supreme Court, Justice Bradley served as a District I Court of Appeals judge (appointed 2015), a Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge (appointed 2012, elected 2013) and worked as an attorney in private practice (1996-2012), including serving as vice president of legal operations for a global software company.

Justice Bradley graduated from Marquette University in 1993 with an honors B.S. in Business Administration and Business Economics and received her juris doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1996. Among other activities, Bradley is a member of the Federalist Society’s Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter’s Board of Advisors and past president of the Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter.

Following the award Presentation, Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Maria Lazar will present the annual Judge Rudolph T. Randa Lecture entitled “Timeless Concepts In Our Trying Times: Separation of Powers and Judicial Independence.”

Judge Lazar was first elected to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in April, 2022. Prior to her Appellate Court service, Judge Lazar was a Circuit Court Judge in Waukesha County, and formerly served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice as part of the Special Litigation and Appeals Unit.

Judge Lazar earned her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Mount Mary college and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

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