Cecelia M. Klingele

Biography

After receiving her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2005, Professor Cecelia Klingele served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Barbara B. Crabb of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, Judge Susan H. Black of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court.  She previously served as a supervising attorney at the law school's Frank J. Remington Center and as an adjunct faculty member.  She teaches courses in criminal law, Constitutional criminal procedure, criminal justice administration, and sentencing and corrections.

Professor Klingele's academic research focuses on criminal justice administration, with an emphasis on sentencing and correctional supervision practices that aim to prevent crime and reduce reliance on incarceration as the primary response to criminal offending. She is Associate Reporter for the Model Penal Code: Sentencing revision, chair of the Academic Committee of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, and a member of the ABA's Committee on Corrections.