Joseph Peter Stadtmueller (born January 28, 1942) is an American lawyer and a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin since 1987. He was chief judge of the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 1995 to 2002.
Joseph Peter Stadtmueller
Wisconsin Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Born 1942 in Oshkosh, WI
FJC ID: 2262
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 32/year
Wisconsin Eastern District Court · 1987–
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2003–2006
U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin1981–1987- Eastern District of WisconsinAssistant U.S. attorney · 1969–1975, 1977–1981
- ↳first assistant U.S. attorney · 1974–1975
- ↳deputy U.S. attorney · 1978–1981
- Private practice, Milwaukee, Wisconsin1968–1969, 1975–1976
Appointments
1987–present · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1967- Marquette UniversityB.A. · 1964