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    July 01, 2004

    Abrahamson recognized for judicial excellence

    Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Indiana University-Bloomington 1956, has been selected to receive the Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence, the highest honor of the American Judicature Society.

    Wisconsin Lawyer
    Vol. 77, No. 7, July 2004

    Abrahamson recognized for judicial excellence

    Shirley S. Abrahamson

    Abrahamson

    Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Indiana University-Bloomington 1956, has been selected to receive the Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence, the highest honor of the American Judicature Society.

    The new award is given to a judge with at least 10 years of judicial service whose written opinions "make clear that bench, bar and community alike would willingly entrust that judge with the most complex cases of the most far-reaching import." During her eight years as chief justice, Abrahamson has spearheaded many activities, including the following: a training and certification program for court interpreters; an initiative to make courthouses safer; a program to increase the speed and efficiency of cases involving children and their families; public outreach programs; and efforts to make the legal system more understandable to pro se litigants.


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