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Kathleen Falk : ウィキペディア英語版 | Kathleen Falk
Kathleen Falk (born June 26, 1951) is an American attorney and politician from Wisconsin who served as Dane County Executive from 1997 until 2011. A Democrat, Falk unsuccessfully sought the party's nomination for Governor of Wisconsin in 2002 and in the 2012 recall election. In 2006, Falk defeated Democratic Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager to win the party's nomination for Attorney General, but was herself defeated by Republican J.B. Van Hollen in the general election. Prior to entering politics, Falk was a prosecutor and public-interest attorney. From 1983 to 1997, she was an assistant attorney general and public intervenor in the Wisconsin Department of Justice; she previously worked as a co-director and legal counsel of Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, an advocacy organization. Falk is the only woman who has served as Dane County Executive and was the first woman to seek a major party's gubernatorial nomination in Wisconsin history. ==Early life and career== Falk was raised in Waukesha County, between Madison and Milwaukee. She earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Stanford University in 1973 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1976. She is also a graduate of Harvard University’s Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program. Following law school, Falk became the co-director and general counsel of Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, Inc., a non-profit, public interest organization devoted environmental litigation and lobbying. Falk successfully argued cases before the Wisconsin Supreme Court during her tenure at Wisconsin's Environmental Decade〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/events/yahara/yahara-speakers.php#falk )〕 In 1983, Falk was hired as an assistant attorney general in the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Attorney General Bronson La Follette appointed Falk to serve as Public Intervenor, a in which capacity Falk performed litigation, lobbying, and advocacy on environmental protection matters. Falk's position was eliminated in 1995,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.midwestadvocates.org/advocacy/accountability/PublicIntervenor.htm )〕 during the tenure of Attorney General James E. Doyle, Jr., and Falk became an administrative law attorney for the department.
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