Wil Schroder
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Wilfred Schroder is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky. He was elected in November 2006 to serve the 6th Supreme Court District. Schroder had more than 23 years of prior judicial service. He served on the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1991 to 200). He also served as a trial judge on the Kenton District Court from 1983-1991, including one year as a juvenile judge. His current term expires 2014.
Legal background
Justice Schroder earned his bachelor's degree in 1968 and his juris doctor in 1970 from the University of Kentucky. He also earned an advanced law degree, LL.M., in 1971 from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Justice Schroder was admitted to the Kentucky Bar in 1970, the Missouri Bar in 1972 and the United States Supreme Court Bar in 1974.
In the early 1970s, while completing his advanced law degree at the University of Missouri, Justice Schroder worked as an attorney for the Kansas City Legal Aid Society and as a corporate attorney for the St. Paul Insurance Company. Upon returning to Kentucky, he became an assistant law professor at Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law (1972 to 1975) during the first three years the college operated as a Kentucky-based institution.
Justice Schroder was in private practice (1975 to 1983) in Covington with his brother, Robert, where he represented the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission and served as a contract attorney for the Special Fund of the Division of Workers' Compensation and as a Kenton County public defender. He also served as a hearing officer for the Kentucky Personnel Board and was appointed city attorney for Newport, Kentucky, (1982 to 1983) during the onset of Newport's early riverfront development.
