Aad J. Vinje

Aad John Vinje (November 10, 1857 – March 23, 1929) was a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He served as a Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1922 to 1929.

Background

Aad John Vinje was born on the Vinje farm (Winje nedre) in Vangen parish in Voss, Hordaland county, Norway.^[1] He came to the United States during 1869 with his parents, Mons Knudsen and Ingeborg Davidsdatter Vinje, together with his four siblings when he was 12 years old.^[2]

His family settled in Marshall County, Iowa, where he attended Iowa College (now Grinnell College) at Grinnell, Iowa, during the period 1873-1874, and Northwestern University at Des Moines, Iowa from 1874 until 1875.^[3]

Career

Vinje earned his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School (B.A., 1884; LL.B., 1887). While in school, he worked in the State Law Library. Vinje served as assistant Supreme Court reporter until 1891, when he established a law office in Superior, Wisconsin. In 1895, Vinje was appointed judge for the 11th Wisconsin Judicial Circuit where he served until 1910. He won election to 10-year terms on the Supreme Court in 1911 and 1921. Upon the death of Chief Justice Robert G. Siebecker in February 1922, Vinje became the Chief Justice, a position he occupied until his death in 1929.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Selected works

• The Legal Aspect of Industrial Consolidations (Feb. 16, 1904), in Reports of the Proceedings of the Meetings of the State Bar Ass’n of Wisconsin, 1904–05, at 167, 171 (1906).

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