Wisconsin State Senator Taylor will begin serving as judge in the Milwaukee County Circuit Court Branch 41 on January 30, 2024 and she resigned as State Senator (today) on January 26, according to Governor Evers.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
January 26, 2024
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Friday, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) announced the appointment of Wisconsin State Senator Lena C. Taylor (D-Milw) as judge to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court Branch 41. Taylor will begin serving as judge on January 30th.
Taylor resigned as State Senator on January 26 and she will serve as judge until July 31, 2025, which is the remainder of the term that Judge Audrey Skwierawski recently resigned from in Milwaukee County.
Taylor previously ran twice unsuccessfully for Milwaukee Mayor in 2020, 2022 and also ran as Wisconsin Lt. Governor in 2022. She ran unsuccessfully as municipal judge in 2023.
Senator Taylor was first elected to the State Assembly as a representative for Assembly District 18 in 2003, and in 2005, she was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate.
As a State legislator, Taylor has authored and passed into law 120 pieces of legislation.
She was also very instrumental in challenging the Gerrymandering district maps that have empowered (kept majority in the state legislature) the Republicans for decades. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Gerrymandering maps were unconstitutional and the Wisconsin State Supreme Court recently ordered Governor Evers to redo the legislative district maps.
In 2021, Taylor and Wisconsin State Representative Sylvia Ortiz-Velez (D-Milw) and allies were instrumental in creating an additional Hispanic majority Aldermanic District in the Southside of Milwaukee, but the Milwaukee Common Council and Mayor Cavalier Johnson rejected an additional Hispanic majority Aldermanic district.
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