University of Wisconsin Law School alumna Cecelia Klingele '05, currently a clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court, will return to Madison as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Law School beginning in the fall semester of the 2009-10 academic year.

Klingele will teach both substantive criminal law and criminal procedure. She will also teach a seminar on sentencing.

Klingele's experience in Madison included a clerkship with the Honorable Barbara D. Crabb, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Klingele also served as clerk to Judge Susan H. Black of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit before her clerkship on the Supreme Court.

In announcing that Klingele had accepted the Law School's offer of the teaching position, Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs Walter Dickey commented, "We are delighted that Cecelia Klingele will be joining the faculty to teach, write and do service in the criminal law field. Her unique experience and uncommon maturity will add immeasurably to our criminal law program here at Wisconsin, of which we are very proud."

Klingele, in turn, commented, "I am honored and delighted to be returning to the UW Law School as a member of the faculty that taught and formed me in so many ways."

She elaborated, "I am a huge fan of the Wisconsin Idea - the concept that the intellectual resources of the academy should be put to the service of the broader community. That approach to legal education distinguishes the University of Wisconsin Law School, and I am eager to carry on that tradition through my own scholarship and teaching."

Klingele is profiled on the Law School Web site at http://law.wisc.edu/law-in-action/alumni/cklingele.html.
 

Submitted by on January 26, 2009

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