Justice Rebecca Frank Dallet
Justice Rebecca Frank Dallet was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on April 3, 2018. Before joining the Supreme Court, she served as a judge of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2014.
Prior to her elected judicial service, Justice Dallet served as the first female presiding court commissioner for Milwaukee County and as a Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney and a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Immediately after graduating from law school, she clerked for Magistrate Judge Aaron Goodstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Justice Dallet received her B.A. summa cum laude with honors from The Ohio State University in 1991, her J.D. summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1994, where she was an editor of law review, and her LL.M. in Judicial Studies from Duke University School of Law in 2025.
Justice Dallet is passionate about the areas of equal access to justice and empowering women as leaders. She chairs a statewide committee on race, equity, inclusion and access and is the Supreme Court liaison to the Access to Justice Commission. Justice Dallet was named a Wisconsin Business Journal Woman of Influence, a Woman in the Law Honoree and a Whitehouse Leadership Project Women Rule! Honoree. She was elected a member of the American Law Institute, serves on the editorial advisory board of Judicature, is a former associate dean of the Wisconsin Judicial College, and a former adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School. Her recent publications include State Shadow Dockets, 2022 WIS. L. REV. 1063, and Reining in State Judicial Conduct Commissions 109 MARQ. L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2026).
Justice Dallet and her husband, Brad, have three adult children.