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Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, shown here at a March 13, 2013, oral argument, took in the vast majority of donations from attorneys whose cases came before the Wisconsin Supreme Court over the past 11 years. Jake Harper/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
Shirley Abrahamson, Wisconsin’s longest-serving Supreme Court justice, died Saturday at the age of 87.
Abrahamson announced in 2018 that she had cancer and would not be seeking another term as a Supreme Court justice. She retired from the court last year after serving for 43 years longer than any other Supreme Court justice in the state’s history. She was the sole woman serving on the court until 1993.