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Mark Gundrum (born March 20, 1970) is an American politician from the state of Wisconsin. He has served as a legislator and jurist. Since 2011, Gundrum has sat as a judge in District II of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.[1]

Biography

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Gundrum graduated from Waukesha Catholic Memorial High School, where he played for the school's gridiron football team.[2] He received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[3] Gundrum served on the Hales Corners, Wisconsin village board. He later worked as a staff attorney for Rudolph T. Randa, a judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.[4] He joined the United States Army Reserve in 2000, and was deployed to Iraq in 2008.[5]

In 1998, Gundrum won the race to succeed Mary Lazich in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican.[6] In the 2002 election, he defeated fellow state legislator Marc C. Duff, who ran against Gundrum due to redistricting.[7] While serving in the Wisconsin State Assembly, Gundrum worked with Steven Avery, who was exonerated after being falsely convicted of a sexual assault, to pass a criminal justice reform bill.[8] In 2010, Gundrum was elected as a Circuit Court judge for Waukesha County. He was soon thereafter appointed by Gov. Scott Walker in 2011 to fill a vacancy on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.[9] Gundrum successfully ran for the seat in 2013 and was re-elected in 2019.[10]

Gundrum and his wife, Mary, married in 1996. They are Catholic and have eight children, whom they homeschooled through Wisconsin Virtual Academy. Their youngest child was born with encephalocele and a facial cleft, which required surgery to correct at Boston Children's Hospital.[11] Gundrum appeared in the 2015 Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, detailing Avery's case.

Gundrum was named as one of Governor Scott Walker's finalists to replace Justice David Prosser, Jr. on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in June 2016.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Wisconsin Court System - Court of Appeals Judges - Judge Gundrum". www.wicourts.gov. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  2. ^ "Google News Archive Search". The Milwaukee Journal. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  3. ^ "Google News Archive Search". The Milwaukee Journal. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  4. ^ "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  5. ^ Brookfield (November 4, 2011). "Gundrum Appointed to Court of Appeals in Waukesha | Brookfield, WI Patch". Patch.com. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  6. ^ "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  7. ^ "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  8. ^ "Making a Murderer: Lawmaker Talks About the Avery Bill : People.com". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  9. ^ "Wisconsin Court System - Court of Appeals Judges - Judge Gundrum". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  10. ^ "Mark Gundrum". Ballotpedia. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  11. ^ English, Bella (January 28, 2013). "Family's agonizing trail leads to infant's surgery". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  12. ^ Stein, Jason (June 22, 2016). "Scott Walker names finalists for Supreme Court vacancy". Jsonline.com. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
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