Supreme Court appoints 11 to Lawyer Investigative Committees

Madison, Wisconsin - December 20, 2001

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has made 11 appointments to the district investigative committees that are part of the lawyer regulation system. The appointments are to committees based in La Crosse, Madison, and Milwaukee.

The Court created the lawyer regulation system, and the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) that administers the system, in October 2000. It replaced the Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility (BAPR). One component of the system is a group of 16 district investigative committees that are located throughout the state. These committees assist the OLR with certain investigations into alleged lawyer misconduct.

The new members of the District 2 Investigative Committee (Milwaukee County) are:

John T. Hanlon, a retired architectural engineer from Elm Grove. From 1945 until 1984, Hanlon worked for CECO Corp., a construction materials company. He retired in 1984 as a regional manager and vice president overseeing the company's work in six states. Hanlon is former president of the Elm Grove Golden K Kiwanis Club and former secretary and president-elect of the Kiwanis Club of Downtown Milwaukee.

Henry H. Uihlein, a retired businessman from River Hills. Uihlein spent 47 years in the appliance industry, serving as president of a company that manufactured and distributed freezers, small refrigerators, and more. In 1960, Uihlein founded U-Line Corp., which is now owned and operated by his three sons.

The new members of the District 5 Investigative Committee (La Crosse area) are:

James W. Geissner, director of human resources and risk management for the City of La Crosse. Geissner has held this position since 1991. Prior to moving to La Crosse, Geissner worked for the City of Milwaukee from 1982 until 1990, first as chief labor relations negotiator and later as employee benefits administrator.

Linda Lee Sondreal, senior librarian at Murphy Library on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Sondreal, of Bangor, has served on numerous education-related boards and committees, including two terms on the board of directors of WEAC, the Wisconsin teachers' union. 

The new members of the District 9 Investigative Committee (Dane County) are:

Nina Petrovich Bartell, Ph.D., a psychologist in private practice in Madison. Bartell is also a mediator for divorcing couples and a consulting staff psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology. She specializes in marital and family therapy and child and adolescent psychology.

Charles A. Bunge, Ph.D., a retired University of Wisconsin-Madison professor. Bunge began teaching at the Library School in 1967 as an assistant professor, became an associate professor in 1970, and was made a full professor at the School of Library and Information Studies in 1977. He retired from full-time teaching in 1997, and was granted emeritus status.

Attorney Maureen McGlynn Flanagan, an assistant attorney general with the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Madison. Flanagan has been with the DOJ since 1976, specializing in appellate work. She currently is assigned to the Government Operations and Administrative Law Unit, handling litigation on public benefits including Medicaid and the W-2 (Wisconsin Works) program, and open records matters.

Attorney Frederick Huguenin Miller, deputy state public defender. Miller has served in the State Public Defender's Office since 1990, and became deputy in 1995. In this capacity, he directs the operations of 325 attorneys in 40 offices statewide. Miller began his career in law in 1967 as chief legal counsel to then-Governor Warren Knowles.

Judith A. Miller, who coordinates the release of new software at Madison's Epic Systems Corporation. Miller develops policies, maintains licensing, and trains customer support staff. Miller was educated in Pittsburgh, where she worked until joining Epic in 1995.

Ellen E. Pritzkow, who served from 1996 to 2001 as a foreign language teacher at Elm Lawn School in Middleton. Pritzkow served from 1978 to 1991 as a writer/producer and public affairs director at WISC-TV, Madison's CBS affiliate. She is also past president of CTM Family Theatre.

Attorney Todd G. Smith, with the Madison law firm of LaFollette, Godfrey & Kahn. Smith has been with the firm since 1997 and specializes in complex commercial and insurance litigation. Prior to joining the firm - and immediately after finishing law school - Smith was a law clerk to Judge Daniel L. LaRocque, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District III. 

For more information contact:
Amanda Todd
Court Information Officer
(608) 264-6256

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