N. Patrick Crooks

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N. Patrick Crooks is a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Justice Crooks was elected to the Supreme Court in 1996 and re-elected in 2006; his term expires July 31, 2016. Justice Crooks considers himself a judicial conservative, and is widely known as a Republican. In the 1995 race for the Supreme Court, he was the most conservative candidate.[1]

Legal background

A native of Green Bay, Wis., Justice Crooks received his bachelor’s degree from St. Norbert College in 1960 and his law degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1963.

Legal career

N. Patrick Crooks

Before joining the Supreme Court, Justice Crooks served 19 years on the bench in Brown County. From 1964 to 1966, he served as a U.S. Army officer at the Pentagon, in the Office of the Judge Advocate General. He also worked in private practice in 1963, and again from 1966 to 1977. While in private practice, he taught business law at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.[2]

Awards and associations

Justice Crooks was named Trial Judge of the Year in 1994 by the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is a member of the American Bar Association and serves as a law school evaluator for the American Bar Association’s Legal Education and Admissions Section. He is also a member of the Wisconsin Law Foundation Board, the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Media-Law Relations Committee and a past member of the Wisconsin Judicial Council. He is a director of the Notre Dame Law Association, and a member of the James E. Doyle Chapter of the American Inns of Court.

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References


The Wisconsin Project on Judgepedia