Ann Walsh Bradley

Ann Walsh Bradley (born July 5, 1950) is a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

She earned her bachelor's degree in 1972 from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.

She worked as a high school teacher at Aquinas High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin, before entering the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she earned a J.D. degree in 1976.

Justice Bradley worked in private law practice until she was appointed judge of the Wisconsin Circuit Court in Marathon County in 1985.

Justice Bradley is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a former associate dean and faculty member of the Wisconsin Judicial College, a former chair of the Wisconsin Judicial Conference, a Democrat and a lecturer for the American Bar Association's Asia Law Initiative.

She was elected to the Supreme Court in 1995 and was re-elected in 2005 and 2015.

She previously served ten years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Marathon County, Wisconsin.

Justice Bradley was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.

Bradley was first elected to the Court in 1995, and re-elected in 2005 and 2015.

Her current term expires July 31, 2025.

Bradley has indicated she will run for another ten-year term in 2025.

If she serves to the end of that term, she would become the second longest-serving justice in the history of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

On June 13, 2011, Bradley had a confrontation with Justice David Prosser Jr. which allegedly became violent.

Prosser, Bradley, and all other justices besides Patrick Crooks were informally discussing the next day decision that would overturn Judge Sumi's ruling on the collective bargaining law in Bradley's office.

There are different accounts as to what occurred.

According to Bradley, the discussion became heated after Bradley asked Prosser to leave her office and said she was bothered by his disparaging comments towards Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson.

Prosser allegedly then put his hands around Bradley's throat in what was described as a choke hold.

Prosser himself said that these reports will be proven to be false.

According to other anonymous sources, Bradley attacked Prosser.

"She charged him with fists raised," the anonymous source said.

Prosser "put his hands in a defensive posture," the anonymous source said.

"He blocked her."

In doing so, the anonymous source said, he made contact with Bradley's neck.

Justice Prosser denied he choked Bradley saying "Once there's a proper review of the matter and the facts surrounding it are made clear, the anonymous claims made to the media will be proven false."

Justice Bradley stated that Prosser had choked her: "The facts are that I was demanding that he get out of my office and he put his hands around my neck in anger in a chokehold."

Neither Prosser nor Bradley faced criminal charges from the incident.

The state Judicial Commission has told its special prosecutor not to pursue new avenues to forward its ethics case against Prosser.

On April 7, 2015, Bradley was reelected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, defeating Rock County Circuit Court Judge James P. Daley.