Dan Ngo is a Business Process Analyst at the Wisconsin Court System / Wisconsin Supreme Court since March 2023. From December 2020 to March 2023, Dan held various roles at Indeavor, including IT Application Specialist, Support Analyst, and Customer Success Intern. Dan served as Vice President and held multiple positions within the Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity from September 2017 to December 2020. Additionally, Dan interned as an Inbound Business Intern at Target in 2020 and was the Residence Hall Advisory Board Chair at UW-Madison Housing from September 2017 to May 2018. Dan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021 and graduated from Batavia Sr High School in 2017.
Wisconsin Court System / Wisconsin Supreme Court
Following is a brief overview of the Wisconsin Court System. Municipal courts -237 municipal courts -240 municipal judges -Milwaukee has the largest municipal court and three full-time municipal judges. Madison has the only other full-time municipal court. Circuit courts -Single level trial court since 1978. -249 circuit judges in 72 counties. Judges elected countywide to six-year terms in non-partisan elections. -Milwaukee County is the largest jurisdiction with 47 judges. -30 counties have one judge each; smaller counties share a judge. Court of Appeals -Created in 1978 and originally designed to handle 1,200 cases per year. -Mostly mandatory jurisdiction, meaning that litigants have the right to appeal their cases from the circuit court to the Court of Appeals. -16 judges in four districts. Judges elected district wide to six-year terms. Supreme Court -Seven justices elected statewide to 10-year terms. -Court of last resort. -Court reviews approximately 1,000 petitions per year and accepts between 100 and 120.