Mark Gundrum

Mark Gundrum (born March 20, 1970) is an American politician from the state of Wisconsin. He has served as a legislator and jurist.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Gundrum graduated from Waukesha Catholic Memorial High School, where he played for the school's gridiron football team.[1] He received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2] Gundrum served on the Hales Corners, Wisconsin village board. He later worked as a staff attorney for Rudolph T. Randa, a judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.[3] He joined the United States Army Reserve in 2000, and was deployed to Iraq in 2008.[4]

In 1998, Gundrum ran for the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican, to succeed Mary Lazich.[5] Gundrum won the election in 1998. In the 2002 election, he defeated fellow state legislator Marc Duff, who ran against Gundrum due to redistricting.[6] While serving in the Wisconsin State Assembly, Gundrum worked with Steven Avery, who was exonerated after being falsely convicted of a sexual assault, to pass a criminal justice reform bill.[7] In 2010, Gundrum was appointed Circuit Court judge for Waukesha County and then was appointed in 2011 to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.[8][9]

Gundrum and his wife, Mary, married in 1996. They are Catholic and have eight children, who they homeschooled through Wisconsin Virtual Academy. Their youngest child was born with encephalocele and a facial cleft, which required surgery to correct at Boston Children's Hospital.[10] Gundrum appeared in the 2015 Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, detailing Avery's case.

References

  1. ↑ "The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ "The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ http://patch.com/wisconsin/brookfield-wi/gundrum-appointed-to-court-of-appeals-in-waukesha
  5. ↑ "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Making a Murderer: Lawmaker Talks About the Avery Bill : People.com". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ "404 Error: File Not Found". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Wisconsin Court System - Court of Appeals Judges - Judge Gundrum". Retrieved March 28, 2016.
  10. ↑ English, Bella (January 28, 2013). "Family’s agonizing trail leads to infant’s surgery". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 28, 2016.

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