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Educational Background

“Anyone taking on the role of Judge should be able to apply not only the lessons learned in a long career of studying and practicing law, but also the lessons learned in many decades of honest, successful, and thoughtful living.”

         -Peter B. Kelly

• Powers Catholic High School

     Flint, Michigan, graduated 1975

      — Voted “Most Likely to Succeed” by his 324 classmates

      — Winning Moot Court Team, Genesee County, 7th Judicial Circuit, 1974

• University of Notre Dame
 

    Earned Bachelor of Business Administration degree, 1979

        — Major in Business Management

        — Minor in Environmental Science

• University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

School of Natural Resources (n/k/a School of Environment and Sustainability)

       — Earned Master of Science degree in Natural Resource Policy, 1981

• Marquette University Law School

     Earned Juris Doctor degree, 1984

       — Member and Staff Editor of Marquette Law Review, 1982-84

       — Served as student law clerk for Milwaukee County Judge Marvin Holz

• St. Mary’s College of A. Maria University     

     Institute for Pastoral Theology

       — Earned Master of Theological Studies degree, 2003

       — Graduated Summa cum Laude

• University of Wisconsin – Whitewater.

     Earned Master of Science degree in Counselor Education, 2008

     — Graduated Summa cum Laude

• University of Wisconsin 

     Madison, Division of Continuing Studies, Professional Development and Applied Studies

     Divorce Mediation Training, 2009

• Attendee at Annual Judicial Conferences,

sponsored by the Wisconsin Supreme Court‘s Office of Judicial Education, 2011 – 2020