18 Facts About Rebecca Bradley

Rebecca Lynn Grassl Bradley was born on August 2,1971 and is an American lawyer, and justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, serving since 2015.

Rebecca Bradley has been a state judge in Wisconsin since 2012.

Rebecca Bradley was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Scott Walker in 2015, and won election to a 10-year term in 2016.

Rebecca Bradley attended the private, all-girls Divine Savior Holy Angels High School.

Rebecca Bradley earned a BS in business administration and business economics from Marquette University in 1993.

Rebecca Bradley received her JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison in 1996.

Rebecca Bradley apologized in 2016 after her columns were discovered by the group One Wisconsin Now.

From 1996 to 2012, Rebecca Bradley worked as an attorney at several Milwaukee law firms, specializing in commercial litigation and intellectual property law, and as a software company executive.

Rebecca Bradley was a contributor to the campaign of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican.

Rebecca Bradley had written letters to the editor and a column for the Marquette Tribune, in which she stated she held no sympathy for AIDS patients because they were "degenerates" who had effectively chosen to kill themselves.

Rebecca Bradley called Americans who voted for Bill Clinton "either totally stupid or entirely evil".

Rebecca Bradley blasted supporters of abortion as murderers, and compared abortion to the Holocaust and slavery.

Rebecca Bradley apologized for her student writings in 2016, shortly after the controversy arose.

In June 2019, Rebecca Bradley wrote the majority opinion for the Wisconsin Supreme Court when conservatives on the court upheld a series of laws, passed by the Republican-led Wisconsin legislature and Republican Governor Scott Walker during a lame-duck session, limiting the powers of the incoming Democratic Governor and Attorney General.

Rebecca Bradley's dissent called the majority's decision not to overturn the election "an indelible stain" that would cause "significant harm to the rule of law".

In 2021, Rebecca Bradley was the sole judge on the Wisconsin Supreme Court to rule in favor of a man who argued that his Second Amendment rights allowed him to brandish firearms while intoxicated and arguing with his roommates.

Rebecca Bradley said that the conviction against the man "erodes a fundamental freedom".

In 2021, Rebecca Bradley wrote a majority decision for the Wisconsin Supreme Court declining changes in district maps that favored Republicans.