Brad Schimel
Wisconsin’s incoming attorney general has named a transition team to help with the switchover in the Department of Justice when he’s sworn in this coming January.
Attorney General-elect Brad Schimel, who will replace outgoing Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, has named attorney Andrew Cook to serve as his top deputy at the agency. Cook will also lead the transition team, which members include Lieutenant Governor Margaret Farrow, state Justice administrator Brian O’Keefe, and former Milwaukee Judge Michael Brennan, along with ex-Public Service Commission chair Ave Bie, UW-Madison vice chancellor Ray Taffora, and the U.S. attorney’s civil division chief Mark Cameli.
Schimel won the office earlier this month when he defeated Democrat Susan Happ in the November 4th election.