KIMBERLY WETHAL
Saying she was disgusted with the “partisan mud-slinging” and record-breaking spending that defined last year’s race for the state Supreme Court, state Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar is running a more understated campaign focusing on her experience as a jurist.
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State Supreme Court candidate Judge Maria Lazar cites her two decades as a lawyer for a private firm in Milwaukee, five years with the state Department of Justice and time spent on both the Waukesha County Circuit Court and the state’s Second District Court of Appeals.
OWEN ZILIAK, STATE JOURNAL
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