Wisconsin Court System / Wisconsin Supreme Court
Hayden Breene is a Business Process Analyst at the Wisconsin Court System, specializing as a Technical Support Engineer for CCAP since April 2021. Prior experience includes a role as a Technical Support Contractor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from May 2018 to April 2021, where responsibilities encompassed troubleshooting and deploying network hardware, managing housing networks, and supervising a team of technicians. Previous experience also includes serving as a Team Trainer at Culver's Restaurants from July 2012 to April 2018, where Hayden directed shifts, organized closing duties, and trained new team members. Hayden Breene earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing studies in 2020.
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.