The Wisconsin Supreme Court has announced that the director of state court job will be filled by the person who has been doing it since August, despite complaints that the hiring was illegal because she had been elected to serve as a Milwaukee County judge. Audrey Skwierawski took a leave from her job as a Milwaukee County circuit judge to work as the state court administrator since the court flipped to majority liberal control in August. The Supreme Court announced Thursday that she will resign as a judge and assume the state court director job on a permanent basis starting Dec. 31. The director of state courts is Wisconsin’s top nonjudicial court official.
