Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan said she will resign from the bench following her criminal conviction last month.Read the letter from her defense team below.She submitted her letter to Gov. Tony Evers on Saturday.A jury found Dugan guilty on a felony obstruction charge for helping an undocumented Mexican immigrant evade federal agents at the Milwaukee County Courthouse in April 2025. The jury acquitted her on a misdemeanor count tied to concealing an individual from discovery and arrest.The day after the verdict, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said the state Assembly would begin impeachment proceedings against Dugan if she did not resign from her office “immediately.”Vos cited Article XIII Section 3(2) of the Wisconsin Constitution, which says “o person convicted of a felony … shall be eligible to any office of trust, profit of honor in this state unless pardoned of this conviction.” Dugan’s defense team is requesting that the trial judge set aside Dugan’s guilty verdict. “Why would any defendant throw up their hands and go ‘Okay, well, I need to accept this without examining the record?'” Dugan attorney Steve Biskupic told WISN 12 political director Matt Smith on UPFRONT in December.Dugan faces up to five years in prison when she is sentenced. A date for that has yet to be set.

MILWAUKEE —

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan said she will resign from the bench following her criminal conviction last month.

Read the letter from her defense team below.

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She submitted her letter to Gov. Tony Evers on Saturday.

A jury found Dugan guilty on a felony obstruction charge for helping an undocumented Mexican immigrant evade federal agents at the Milwaukee County Courthouse in April 2025. The jury acquitted her on a misdemeanor count tied to concealing an individual from discovery and arrest.

The day after the verdict, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said the state Assembly would begin impeachment proceedings against Dugan if she did not resign from her office “immediately.”

Vos cited Article XIII Section 3(2) of the Wisconsin Constitution, which says “[n]o person convicted of a felony … shall be eligible to any office of trust, profit of honor in this state unless pardoned of this conviction.”

Dugan’s defense team is requesting that the trial judge set aside Dugan’s guilty verdict. “Why would any defendant throw up their hands and go ‘Okay, well, I need to accept this without examining the record?'” Dugan attorney Steve Biskupic told WISN 12 political director Matt Smith on UPFRONT in December.

Dugan faces up to five years in prison when she is sentenced. A date for that has yet to be set.