Jennifer Dorow, Judge of the Waukesha County Circuit Court (Branch 2).Janet Protasiewicz, Judge of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court (Branch 24).Daniel Kelly, former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (2016–2020).Protasiewicz is set to take office on August 1, 2023. Kelly lost by a wider margin than his own defeat three years prior. Protasiewicz won the election by 11.02%, flipping the court to a liberal majority. Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler called it 'the most important election nobody's ever heard of.' election three weeks before the election it had already become the most expensive judicial race in history. The election was described as the most important 2023 U.S.

Because the court rejected Donald Trump's false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the outcome of this race could determine how the court rules if a similar attempt is made to overturn the 2024 election.

The race was widely considered to be a de facto referendum on legal abortion access in Wisconsin, as well as how the court rules on future cases involving abortion rights, voting rights, and redistricting. Other candidates in the 2023 primary included conservative Waukesha County circuit judge Jennifer Dorow and liberal Dane County circuit judge Everett Mitchell. Although Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are officially nonpartisan, Kelly was identified as being the Republican-aligned candidate and Protasiewicz the Democratic-aligned candidate. Protasiewicz and Kelly advanced from the February 21 nonpartisan primary, receiving 46% and 24% of the votes, respectively. Roggensack is retiring after 20 years on the court she has identified as a conservative and voted consistently with the conservative 4–3 majority on the court. Milwaukee County circuit judge Janet Protasiewicz defeated former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Daniel Kelly, effectively flipping the ideological balance of the court. The 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term.

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