In the Matter of Judicial Disciplinary Proceedings Against Michelson

¶ 1. This is a review pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 757.91 1 of the findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendation for discipline of the judicial conduct panel concerning the judicial misconduct of the Hon. Robert Michelson, municipal judge for the city of Racine. Based on facts to which Judge Michelson and the Wisconsin Judicial Commission stipulated in this proceeding, the panel concluded that Judge Michelson's intemperate, discourteous and undignified comments from the bench concerning the daughter of a woman who was appearing before him constituted a wilful violation of the provision…