Members of the Board of Bar Examiners
Prof. Daniel Blinka, Milwaukee, Chair
Daniel D. Blinka is a practicing trial lawyer and law professor at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a scholar, Blinka focuses primarily on evidence law, criminal procedure, and American history. He teaches evidence, trial advocacy, criminal law, constitutional criminal procedure, ethics, and American history. Blinka holds a Ph.D. in American history and a JD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has also taught history courses.
Atty. Brian Anderson
Brian Anderson is a trial attorney with The Everson Law Firm in Green Bay. His practice spans the entire State of Wisconsin and beyond, defending insurance companies and their insureds, and defending healthcare providers in medical malpractice cases. Prior to joining The Everson Law Firm, Brian was an Assistant Professor of Law teaching international and comparative law subjects, legal research, and a -year course at the College of Law at Ohio Northern University. He was also engaged in law reform projects as a rule of law advisor in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and sub-Saharan Africa. He has a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, J.D. from the Pettit College of Law at Ohio Northern University, and a M.I.S. from the University of Illinois.
Atty. Tom Dickey, Green Bay
Todd Dickey is a civil litigation trial attorney with The Everson Law Firm in Green Bay. Much of his practice consists of defending insurance companies and insureds. He practices throughout the State of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He is licensed in Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. Additionally, he is admitted to the federal bar in the Western and Eastern District of Wisconsin, Northern District of Illinois and Western District of Michigan.
Ms. Diane Fremgen, Madison
Diane M. Fremgen recently retired from the Wisconsin court system where she served in a variety of positions over her 32 year career, including the Clerk of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. She was appointed by the Court in 2023 to fill a vacancy in the term (2022-2024) and serves as one of three public members on the board.
Hon. Jason Hanson, DeForest
Jason Hanson is a full-time court commissioner in Dane County Circuit Court, where he handles criminal, family, small claims, juvenile, probate, and mental health cases. He is also the municipal judge for the Village of DeForest and the Village of Windsor. He is a former president of both the Wisconsin Family Court Commissioners Association and the Wisconsin Municipal Judges Association. He is the Chair of the criminal Benchbook Committee, and serves or has served on the circuit court Judicial Education Committee, the municipal court Judicial Education Committee, the state STOP Grant Committee, the state Interpreter Committee, and a number of other local and state commissions and boards. Prior to becoming a judicial official, he was an administrative law judge, assistant district attorney, and deputy district attorney.
Atty. Linda S. Isnard, Vice Chair
Atty. Linda S. Isnard graduated from Marquette University Law School in 1988 where she was a member of the Marquette Law Review and Alpha Sigma Nu-Jesuit Honor Society. She has been in private practice in the greater Milwaukee area since that date focusing on state and federal civil litigation and appeals, school, health and real estate law, and commercial transactions. She is a current member of the Office of Lawyer Regulation District 13 Committee and contributing author to The Attorney's Guide to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, a State Bar of Wisconsin publication
Associate Dean Kevin Kelly, Madison
Kevin M. Kelly has been on the University of Wisconsin Law School staff since 1998. He currently serves as Associate Dean for Academics & Students. He received a B.S. with honors in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and his J.D. with honors from the University of Wisconsin, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Law Review. He is also a Captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, US Navy Reserve, specializing in military operational law and international law issues. Associate Dean Kelly previously served on the Board of Bar Examiners from 2000 to 2006.
Hon. Scott Needham, New Richmond
Judge Scott Needham was appointed to a three-year term (2022-2024) on the Board of Bar Examiners by the Court in 2021. He serves as the one judicial member of the board.
Mr. Peter Sorce, Germantown
Peter Sorce was appointed to a three-year term (2022-2024) on the Board of Bar Examiners by the Court in 2021. He is one of three public members on the board. Mr. Sorce has also served as a member of the optometry board, the psychology board, the Wisconsin Court System, Planning and Policy Advisory Committee (PPAC) as well as the Medical Mediation Panel.
Mr. Travis Stein, Cottage Grove
Travis Stein graduated from UW–Platteville in 1996 with a BS in Secondary Education and Social Sciences with an Emphasis in History. For the past 20 plus years he has been an instructional designer, facilitator, mentor, coach and supervisor in the corporate training world at American Family Insurance and currently at Wisconsin Physicians Insurance (WPS). At WPS his main focus has been the training for the company's government contracts for Medicare, Military and Veteran insurance. He was also an officer for three years (2005 - 2007) for the Wisconsin Association of Insurance Trainers (W.A.I.T.) and served as President in 2007.
Atty. Megan Stelljes, Madison
Megan Stelljes is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. In that role, she represents the United States and its employees in a variety of civil suits and appeals. These include employment cases, tort cases, and litigation relating to federal programs. Megan previously practiced commercial litigation at a firm in Madison, where she focused on class actions. She graduated from UW Law School in 2013 and clerked for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.