Peg Lautenschlager
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| 1st Chair of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission | |
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Assumed office July 11, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Commission established |
| 42nd Wisconsin Attorney General | |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Jim Doyle |
| Succeeded by | J. B. Van Hollen |
| United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin | |
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In office 1993–2001 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Kevin C. Potter |
| Succeeded by | J. B. Van Hollen |
| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 52nd district |
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In office 1989–1993 |
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November 22, 1955 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Bill Rippl; 5 children |
| Residence | Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Peggy A. "Peg" Lautenschlager (born November 22, 1955) is the current chair of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. She was Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin from January 3, 2003 to January 3, 2007. She succeeded fellow Democrat Jim Doyle when Doyle was elected Governor of Wisconsin in 2002. Lautenschlager is the first woman to have been elected Attorney General in the State of Wisconsin.
She was unsuccessful in her September 2006 bid for re-election as the Democratic Party candidate, and became the first incumbent Wisconsin Attorney General to lose a primary in 58 years.
Lautenschlager is a native of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and still resides there. Lautenschlager is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lake Forest College 1977, majoring in history and mathematics. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in June 1980.
From July 1985 to December 1988, Lautenschlager was District Attorney for Winnebago County, the first woman elected to the office. Lautenschlager is a former member of the Wisconsin State Elections Board, the Governor's Council on Domestic Abuse, the Democratic National Committee and the Oshkosh Rape Crisis Center.
Prior to her service as district attorney, she was an attorney in private practice in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, specializing in family and domestic abuse law. She served as a member of the adjunct faculties of the University of Wisconsin Law School, the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, and Ripon College, and served as interim circuit court commissioner of Winnebago County.
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