Incumbent
Rebecca Bradley
IncumbentRebecca Bradley
Wisconsin Supreme Court winner?
$94.9K
APR 14, 2026
General Election
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Overview
Current roleJudge
PartyRepublican
Political ideologyConservative Republican
GenderFemale
LocationWisconsin
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BackgroundAttorney
EducationMarquette University (B.S., Business Administration and Business Economics, 1993)
Notable personal detailsRebecca Grassl Bradley is an American lawyer and jurist who has served on the Wisconsin Supreme Court since 2015, after being appointed by Gov. Scott Walker and later elected to a 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, District I. She previously worked in private practice and in-house roles, including as vice president of legal operations for a global software company.
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Positions
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
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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