Judge, Waukesha County Circuit Court
Judge Michael J. Aprahamian serves as a judge on the Waukesha County Circuit Court. Prior to taking the bench in 2014, Judge Aprahamian was a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP, where he was a civil trial lawyer and the firm's partner in charge of ethics training. Prior to joining Foley, he clerked for the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1992 and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin in 1989.
Deputy Counsel, Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty
Dan Lennington serves as Deputy Counsel at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), where he directs the Equality Under the Law Project. Started in early 2021, the EUL Project has represented dozens of individuals and businesses nationwide, successfully advocating for race neutrality in both public and private programs.
Before joining WILL, Dan served as Assistant Deputy Attorney General in Wisconsin and Assistant U.S. Attorney in Oklahoma. He is a graduate of Hillsdale College.
Dan can be reached at dan@will-law.org. More information about the EUL Project can be found at www.defendequality.org.
Partner, Eimer Stahl LLP
Sopen Shah is co-managing partner of the firm's Madison office and leader of its Critical Motions & Appeals practice. An award-winning writer and experienced oral advocate, Sopen has handled appeals in the Supreme Court of the United States and other federal and state courts nationwide. She also litigates complex trial-court matters; for example, she recently obtained dismissal of a $950-million lawsuit for lack of personal jurisdiction in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Chambers USA ranks Sopen among Wisconsin's leading commercial litigators, and The Best Lawyers in America recognizes her in both appellate and commercial litigation. She has received the State Bar of Wisconsin's best-brief award and was nominated by the President of the United States to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
Before entering private practice, Sopen served as Deputy Solicitor General of Wisconsin, where she prevailed on the merits in every decided case. She clerked for Judge Debra Ann Livingston of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Amul Thapar during his time on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Sopen earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as managing editor of the Yale Law Journal, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College. Before law school, she worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and an on-air financial analyst at Bloomberg.
She teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She also serves as board chair of the Clean Lakes Alliance, treasurer of the State Bar of Wisconsin's Appellate Practice Section, and member of the Law Forward board.
Judicial Engagement Fellow, Institute for Justice
President, Center for American Rights
Daniel Suhr serves as president of the Center for American Rights, where he spends every day on the front lines of the fight to preserve our rights and liberties. The Center's mission is to advance free speech, free enterprise, and parental freedom in education through strategic, precedent-setting litigation.
Daniel formerly worked as policy director for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, as chief of staff for Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, and as a law clerk for Judge Diane Sykes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He holds a B.A. and J.D. from Marquette University, and master’s degrees from Georgetown and the University of Missouri.
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