The 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election is scheduled for Tuesday, April 1, 2025, to elect a justice of the

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for a ten-year term. Incumbent justice

Ann Walsh Bradley Ann Walsh Bradley (born July 5, 1950) is a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was elected to the Supreme Court in 1995 and was re-elected in 2005 and 2015. She previously served ten years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Marathon C ...

has indicated she will seek a fourth ten-year term. Bradley has served on the court since 1995; if she wins the 2025 Supreme Court election and serves to the end of that term, she would become the second longest-serving justice in the history of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. No incumbent justice has ever been defeated after previously having won a contested Wisconsin Supreme Court election. If more than two candidates file to run for this seat, a nonpartisan primary election will be held February 18, 2025, with the top two vote-getters advancing to the April 1 general election. The filing deadline to appear on the ballot in the 2025 election is January 1, 2025.

Primary election

Candidates

Declared

, incumbent Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court *

Brad Schimel Brad Schimel (born February 18, 1965) is an American prosecutor and judge. He was the 44th Attorney General of Wisconsin, serving from 2015 to 2019. He was defeated seeking re-election in 2018 Wisconsin Attorney General election, 2018, and was sub ...

, Judge of the

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Circuit Court (2019–present), former

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(2015–2019)

Potential

Shelley Grogan Shelley Ann Grogan (born August 14, 1967) is an American lawyer and judge, currently serving on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in the Waukesha-based District II court. She previously served as a municipal judge in Muskego, Wisconsin. Biography ...

, Judge of the

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(2021–present) * Maria Lazar, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals (2022–present)

References

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