Diane S. Sykes
| Diane Schwerm Sykes | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2004 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | John Louis Coffey |
| Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court | |
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In office September 1999 – July 1, 2004 |
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| Appointed by | Tommy Thompson |
| Preceded by | Donald W. Steinmetz |
| Succeeded by | Louis B. Butler |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Diane Schwerm December 23, 1957 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Education |
Northwestern University B.S. Marquette University Law School J.D. |
Diane Schwerm Sykes (born December 23, 1957) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Sykes graduated from Brown Deer High School in 1976 and then earned a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism at Northwestern University in 1980 and a Juris Doctor at Marquette University Law School in 1984. Between college and law school she worked as a reporter for The Milwaukee Journal.
After law school, from 1984 to 1985, Sykes clerked for Judge Terence T. Evans at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. From 1985 to 1992, she worked in private practice as a litigator for Whyte & Hirschboeck, a medium-sized law firm in Milwaukee. Sykes won election to a newly created trial judge seat on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court in 1992, serving in the misdemeanor, felony, and civil divisions. She left the trial court in 1999 when she was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, to fill a vacancy for Justice Donald W. Steinmetz. After being appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, she was elected to the Supreme Court in April 2000, defeating Louis B. Butler, Jr., who was later appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by Governor Jim Doyle in 2004.
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