Mark Gundrum
Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals District II
Assumed office
November 4, 2011
Appointed byScott Walker
Preceded byDaniel P. Anderson
Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge for the Waukesha circuit, branch 2
In office
August 1, 2010 – November 4, 2011
Preceded byRichard Congdon
Succeeded byJennifer R. Dorow
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
from the 84th district
In office
January 4, 1999 – July 31, 2010
Preceded byMary Lazich
Succeeded byMike Kuglitsch
Personal details
BornMilwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison (BA, JD)
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
U.S. Army Reserve
Years of service2000–present
UnitJudge Advocate General's Corps
Battles/warsIraq War

Mark Gundrum (born March 20, 1970) is an American lawyer and politician serving as a judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals for District II.[1] He previously served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1999 to 2010.

Early life and education

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Gundrum graduated from 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]

Career

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 Governor 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 was named as one of Governor Scott Walker's finalists to replace Justice David Prosser, Jr. on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in June 2016.[11]

Personal life

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.[12] Gundrum appeared in the 2015 Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, detailing Avery's case.

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. ↑ Stein, Jason (June 22, 2016). "Scott Walker names finalists for Supreme Court vacancy". Jsonline.com. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
  12. ↑ English, Bella (January 28, 2013). "Family's agonizing trail leads to infant's surgery". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
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