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Accomplishments

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Served as the Hales Corners Municipal Judge since 2011. Presided over 385 trials and countless hearings.

  • Re-structured our collections process at the end of 2017. Since 2018, the court has collected more than $800,000 in forfeitures.

  • Kept our court full-time and operational when the Wisconsin Supreme Court closed down all courts throughout the state in March 2020 due to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We immediately created a way for people to enter pleas by mail and email and we held all pretrial conferences by telephone until we were able to seek and receive permission to resume in-court activities in June 2020. The Hales Corners Municipal Court was one of the earliest courts in the area to resume in-court hearings. Our court kept justice moving by being creative.

  • Created materials that people receive at the time they are given citations that gives them clear instructions on what they need to do next.

  • Always within budget.

  • Continually looking for ways to improve the court. Improved procedures and processes whenever we can to make the court run better and more efficiently.

  • The Village Hall recently had two large monitors installed in the Board room, which doubles as the Courtroom. While the monitors were installed for other purposes, the court now uses them to deliver information via continuously looping PowerPoint slides. This gives the court an additional means of getting important information to people without spending any additional money.

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  • Made it easier for people to pay citations.  When we provided a QR code, there were people using it on the very first day.

  • I have worked hard to maintain public confidence in our court by being committed to equal justice, fairness, and transparency. Wisconsin Statutes requires audio recordings to be made of trials and certain types of hearings. Since I have been the judge, we record all hearings, even those not required by law to be recorded.

Re-Elect Jennine Sonntag

HALES CORNERS MUNICIPAL JUDGE

Paid for by Re-Elect Judge Jennine Sonntag, Robert T. Stollenwerk Treasurer

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