Two of the four individuals who will receive the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award for 2006 are graduates of the UW Law School. Jeffrey Bartell ‘68, a founding partner of Quarles & Brady, and Pat Richter ‘71, former UW Director of Athletics, will be recognized for outstanding service to their profession and to the state of Wisconsin in the May 5 Awards Program at Memorial Union Theater.

Jeffrey Bartell has served Wisconsin both as Assistant Attorney General and as Commissioner of Securities. His law career been an active one of service to his profession and the state, and in addition, the hours he dedicates to UW-Madison and the arts community have been called the equivalent of a full-time job. He is a member of the Bascom Hill Society and the Law School’s Benchers Society, and he chaired the successful $1 million capital campaign for the Memorial Union’s Director’s Fund.

Since the 1990s, Bartell has been chair of the Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts. He is the director of the Ten Chimneys Foundation, the organization that restored and preserves the former home of actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, located in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, and opened it to the public as a world-class museum and national resource for theater and arts education. He was instrumental in making Madison’s Monona Terrace and Overture Center for the Performing Arts become a reality.

Pat Richter holds the record for the longest tenured UW-Madison director of athletics, serving in the position through three administrations. He brought the department out of a $2.1 million budget deficit, a budget that now has a reserve of $6.4 million.

Richter led a 12-year battle to bring the department into Title IX compliance and is the man who first lured Barry Alvarez to head the university’s football program. Wisconsin student athletes earned more Academic All-Big Ten honors during the 1990s than any other school in the conference. Under Richter, the UW won three national championships, 49 Big Ten championships, and eight football bowl games; Richter is credited with saving the UW athletic program.

Joining Richter and Bartell as recipients of the award are Russell Peterson UW ‘38, former Governor of Delaware and former National Audubon Society President, and Judith Hicks Stiehm ‘57, Professor of Political Science, Florida International University.

At the May 5 Awards Program in Memorial Union Theater, Law School Dean Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., has been selected to give opening remarks to introduce Jeffrey Bartell.

The Distinguished Alumni Awards are the highest honor bestowed by the Wisconsin Alumni Association.

To register to attend the ceremony and dinner, see

http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?eventDisp=AW%2006 .