Wisconsin’s Office of Lawyer Regulation is taking steps to pull the law license of a former judge who was found guilty of obstructing immigration enforcement.
Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered 67-year-old former Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan to pay a $5,000 fine. In December, a jury found Dugan guilty of obstructing a federal proceeding. That’s after she led a man through a side door of her courtroom in April 2025 after immigration agents had arrived to arrest the man for being in the country illegally.
This week, the body tasked with regulating Wisconsin lawyers released a motion requesting that Dugan’s law license be “summarily suspended.” That motion does not specify how long the suspension should be. Ultimately, it will be up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide whether to grant the suspension, as well as how long the suspension should last, a state court system spokesperson said…