Milwaukee County Board Chairman LEE HOLLOWAY has set his swearing in ceremony as county executive for noon Dec. 28 in the county courthouse. Current county exec SCOTT WALKER filed his resignation effective Dec. 27 as he prepares to take office as governor. See details: http://wispolitics.com/1006/101214_CEX_Swearing_in_2010.pdf.
Glendale Judge CHRISTOPHER LIPSCOMB announced he’ll run for Branch 18 of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court. He’ll face current judge and former state Rep. PEDRO COLON and Assistant Attorney General ROY KORTE. See Lipscomb’s announcement: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=220766.
Gov. JIM DOYLE and First Lady JESSICA DOYLE received lifetime of service awards from the Milwaukee County Democratic Party at its annual dinner this week. See details: http://www.milwaukeedems.org/2010/10/21/save-the-date-dec-9-dpmc-awards-dinner.
Milwaukee County Supervisor MARINA DIMITRIJEVIC was honored by the Milwaukee County Dems as an "Elected Official of the Year." See more: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=220237.
The White House this week announced the members of its Council for Community Solutions, including UW-Milwaukee alum PAUL SCHMITZ, the co-chair of Voices for National Service and the founder of Public Allies Milwaukee. See more: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=220688.
Milwaukee attorney J. MICHAEL END was elected president of the Wisconsin Association for Justice at the group’s Dec. 3 meeting. See more: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=220513.
GLORIA ROGERS has been elected president of the Racine branch of the NAACP. Rogers, currently 1st vice president, will replace MICHAEL SHIELDS, who opted against running for another term.
JOHN BOBROWICH, executive director, Wisconsin Energy Research Consortium; ROMAN DRABA, vice president of regulatory affairs and policy, We Energies; STEVE HINIKER, executive director, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin; and JOE MUELBACH, executive director of facilities and environmental policy, Quad/Graphics, discussed the results of the latest People Speak survey on energy policy during a Public Policy Forum panel discussion Monday in Milwaukee.
