Brian Keith Hagedorn was born on January 21,1978 and is an American lawyer and a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, serving since 2019.
15 Facts About Brian Hagedorn
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At Northwestern, Brian Hagedorn was president of the school's Federalist Society chapter.
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In 2010, Hagedorn was employed as an assistant attorney general in the Wisconsin Department of Justice, under Attorney General J B Van Hollen.
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In December 2010, Brian Hagedorn was appointed chief legal counsel to the Republican governor-elect Scott Walker.
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In 2019, Brian Hagedorn ran for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court to succeed retiring Justice Shirley Abrahamson, who had served on the court since 1976.
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That analysis was borne out throughout 2020, as Brian Hagedorn's vote was decisive on politically-sensitive cases on the COVID-19 pandemic in Wisconsin and election-related cases before and after the 2020 election.
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Brian Hagedorn has since come under criticism from his former Supreme Court colleague, conservative justice Daniel Kelly, who accused Hagedorn of trying to seek political neutrality when considering the implications of his rulings.
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In May 2020, Brian Hagedorn dissented from the conservative majority's decision to invalidate Governor Tony Evers' stay-at-home order in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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In March 2021, Brian Hagedorn was in the Wisconsin Supreme Court's conservative majority that prevented Governor Tony Evers from extending a face mask mandate intended to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
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On December 3,2020, Justice Brian Hagedorn again sided with the court's liberal minority, voting to reject the petition from President Trump's campaign on the procedural error that, according to Wisconsin law, any election challenges must originate in the Wisconsin Circuit Courts.
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Brian Hagedorn broke from the conservative majority and sided with the court's three liberals to select governor Tony Evers maps in March 2022, but that decision was immediately challenged to the United States Supreme Court.
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Brian Hagedorn dissented, writing that the state court lacked proper tests and procedure to handle redistricting cases; he lamented that the court would now be tainted by recurring partisan battles over redistricting.
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Brian Hagedorn was paid more than $3,000 to give speeches between 2015 and 2017 to Alliance Defending Freedom.
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In 2004, as a law student, Brian Hagedorn was an intern for the group, then known as the Alliance Defense Fund.
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In 2016, Brian Hagedorn founded the Augustine Academy in Merton, Wisconsin, a private K-6 Christian school.