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Rebecca Bradley

Rebecca Bradley

Overview

Current roleJudge

PartyRepublican

Political ideologyConservative Republican

Age54 years old (Aug 2, 1971)

GenderFemale

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LocationWisconsin

BackgroundAttorney

EducationMarquette University — B.S., Business Administration and Business Economics (1993)

Notable personal detailsRebecca Lynn Grassl Bradley is an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 2015 until the end of her term in 2026. She was appointed to the court by Gov. Scott Walker in October 2015 and won election to a full 10-year term in 2016. Before joining the Supreme Court, she served as a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge and as a judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. She earned a B.S. from Marquette University and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

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Positions

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Healthcare

Justice Rebecca Bradley has issued opinions and dissents that reflect a conservative approach to health policy, including dissenting against court rulings that preserved abortion access and joining opinions limiting broad executive public-health mandates. Her judicial record shows skepticism of expansive public-health powers and opposition to certain reproductive-health protections.

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

Rebecca Bradley has expressed strongly anti-abortion views and has dissented from court decisions that preserved or expanded abortion access in Wisconsin. Her past public writings and judicial dissents have characterized abortion in terms consistent with opposition to reproductive-health access and critiqued court majorities that ruled to allow abortions under modern law.

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Public Safety & Guns

The candidate supports Second Amendment rights and has emphasized protecting law‑abiding gun owners from what she describes as unnecessary or unconstitutional restrictions. She has received endorsement from the NRA, is a gun owner with a concealed‑weapons permit, and in at least one court opinion favored a broader interpretation of Second Amendment protections.

News

AINews Summary
Last updatedMar 14, 2026

Rebecca Bradley is in the news amid shifting stakes in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court elections after Justice Annette Ziegler said she will not seek reelection, opening a future seat. The next statewide Supreme Court election on April 7, 2026, is now being framed as a key test of whether liberals can expand their court majority or whether conservatives can hold it.

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Articles
UNU.S. News & World Report5 months ago

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Is Retiring, Giving Liberals Chance to Expand Majority

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