N. Patrick Crooks

Justice N. Patrick Crooks (born May 16, 1938) is a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Justice Crooks was elected to the Supreme Court in 1996 and re-elected in 2006.^[1]

Justice Crooks is a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin. After graduating from Premontre High School in 1956, Crooks received his bachelor’s degree from St. Norbert College in 1960 and his law degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1963.

From 1963 to 1966, Justice Crooks served as an officer in the United States Army at the Pentagon, in the Office of the Judge Advocate General. He worked in private law practice in 1963, and again from 1966 to 1977. While in private practice, he taught business law at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay.

From 1977 to 1996, Justice Crooks served as a circuit court judge in Brown County, and was named Trial Judge of the Year in 1994 by the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is a member of the American Bar Association and serves as a law school evaluator for the American Bar Association’s Legal Education and Admissions Section. He is also a member of the Wisconsin Law Foundation Board, the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Media-Law Relations Committee and a past member of the Wisconsin Judicial Council. He is a director of the Notre Dame Law Association, and a member of the James E. Doyle Chapter of the American Inns of Court.

In April 2015, Crooks expressed interest in possibly seeking reelection to the court and the position of Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, a move that surprised many observers due to the fact that he had previously said he would not seek reelection.

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