Wilfrid Albert "Wil" Schroder (1946 – October 26, 2013) was a justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 2007 to 2013.

Early life, education, and career

Born in

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, Schroder received a B.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1968, followed by a J.D. degree from the same institution in 1970. He received an

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from the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1971. He worked for a time at the Kansas City Legal Aid Society, and in-house for the St. Paul Insurance Company, and taught law as an assistant professor at Northern Kentucky University's

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. He entered private practice in 1975.

Judicial career

Schroder was a judge of the Kenton County District Court from 1983 to 1991. In June 1991, Governor

Wallace Wilkinson Wallace Glenn Wilkinson (December 12, 1941 – July 5, 2002) was an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1987 to 1991, he served as the state's 57th governor. Wilkinson dropped out of college at the Univer ...

appointed him to a seat on the Sixth Appellate District of the Kentucky Court of Appeals vacated by the death of Judge Judy West. Schroder ran unopposed for election to the full term. He served in that capacity until 2006, when he was elected to the state supreme court, serving until his retirement in January 2013, due to health issues caused by a brain tumor.

Personal life and death

Schroder married Nancy E. Quirk, with whom he had two daughters and a son. Nancy, a schoolteacher, died of breast cancer in 1991, at the age of 46.Ben L. Kaufman, "Nancy Schroder, Ky. teacher", '' The Cincinnati Enquirer'' (January 29, 1991), p. D-3. In 1993, he married Susan Wahlbrink, they had no children. Schroder died in Fort Mitchell at the age of 67. His son,

Wil Schroder Wil Schroder (born June 29, 1982) is an American politician who served in the Kentucky Senate representing the 24th district from 2015 to 2023. His father, Wilfrid Schroder, served on the Kentucky Supreme Court. He announced on May 22, 2021, th ...

, became a member of the

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References

1946 births 2013 deaths People from Kenton County, Kentucky University of Kentucky alumni University of Missouri School of Law alumni Salmon P. Chase College of Law faculty Justices of the Kentucky Supreme Court Deaths from brain tumor {{Kentucky-state-judge-stub