{"id":7728,"date":"2016-02-23T10:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7728"},"modified":"2016-02-23T10:54:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:54:50","slug":"governor-walker-announces-new-regents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7728","title":{"rendered":"Governor Walker Announces New Regents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-363\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/uw-system-logo.gif\" alt=\"uw system logo\" width=\"149\" height=\"131\" \/>Governor Scott Walker <a href=\"http:\/\/walker.wi.gov\/newsroom\/press-release\/governor-scott-walker-announces-appointments-university-wisconsin-system-0\">announced<\/a> the appointment of three new members to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents earlier this month. <strong>Tracey Klein<\/strong>, a Milwaukee attorney, and <strong>Bryan Steil<\/strong>, a Beloit attorney, will serve regular seven-year terms, while <strong>Lisa Erickson<\/strong>, a UW-River Falls journalism student, will serve a two-year term as non-traditional student regent.<\/p>\n<p>Klein is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reinhartlaw.com\/people\/tracey-klein\/#overview\">shareholder<\/a> at the Milwaukee law firm of Reinhart Boerner Van Dueren where she chairs their health care practice. She is a member of the UW-Madison Political Science Department <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.polisci.wisc.edu\/bov\/\">Board of Visitors<\/a>, the Marquette University Law School Board of Visitors, and the\u00a0Southeast\u00a0Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District Board of Directors. She is a graduate of UW-Madison and Marquette University Law School. The Capital Times <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/ct\/news\/local\/education\/university\/scott-walker-names-campaign-donor-to-uw-board-of-regents\/article_0f473c5a-a2b0-5e6f-9b33-f855429c747b.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share\">reported<\/a> she\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0generous contributor to Governor\u00a0Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Steil is associate general\u00a0counsel at Regal Beloit. He previously worked as a legislative assistant to Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Janesville). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Wisconsin Law School. His grandfather, George K. Steil, Sr., was a member of the Board of Regents\u00a0from 1990 to 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Erickson, of Osceola, is a former catering company owner. In addition to being a student, she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presspubs.com\/osceola\/multimedia\/videos\/youtube_0d02bf2a-1d42-11e2-82fe-0019bb2963f4.html\">writes<\/a> a weekly food column and is a crisis pregnancy counselor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Scott Walker announced the appointment of three new members to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents earlier this month. Tracey Klein, a Milwaukee attorney, and Bryan Steil, a Beloit attorney, will serve regular seven-year terms, while Lisa&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7728\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[12,31,137],"class_list":["post-7728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw-system","tag-regents","tag-scott-walker","tag-uw-system","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7734,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7728\/revisions\/7734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}