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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 627
November 14, 2025 - Introduced by Senator
Tomczyk
, cosponsored by Representatives
B. Jacobson
,
Dittrich
,
Krug
,
Maxey
,
Murphy
,
O'Connor
,
Penterman
,
Gustafson
and
Knodl
. Referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety.
SB627,1,2
1
An Act
to create
757.023 of the statutes;
relating to:
setting a maximum age
2
for serving as a supreme court justice or judge of a court of record.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Article VII, section 24 (2), of the Wisconsin Constitution authorizes the legislature to set an age, of not less than 70 years, beyond which a supreme court justice or judge of any court of record may not serve, unless the person is appointed on a temporary basis as a reserve judge.
Under this bill, no person may be elected or appointed, other than as a temporary reserve judge, to serve as a supreme court justice or judge of a court of record if the date of election or appointment occurs on or after the date the person attains the age of 75 years.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB627,1
3
Section
1
.
757.023 of the statutes is created to read:
SB627,2,2
4
757.023
Maximum age for justices and judges.
(1)
No person may be
5
elected or appointed to serve as a supreme court justice or judge of a court of record
1
if the date of election or appointment occurs on or after the date the person attains
2
the age of 75 years.
SB627,2,4
3
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply to a temporary reserve judge appointed
4
under s. 753.075.
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