Rudolph Thomas Randa (July 25, 1940 – September 5, 2016) was an American lawyer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 1992 to 2016. He was chief judge of the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 2002 until October 2009. Prior to his appointment to the federal court, he was a judge of the Wisconsin Circuit Court and served one year on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
Rudolph Thomas Randa
Wisconsin Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Born 1940 in Milwaukee, WI
Died 2016
FJC ID: 1961
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 47/year
Wisconsin Eastern District Court · 1992–2016
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
- Wisconsin Circuit Court, Milwaukee CountyJudge · 1979–1981, 1982–1992
- Wisconsin Court of AppealsJudge · 1981–1982, 1983–1985
- ↳First Judicial District · 1981–1982
- ↳Fourth Judicial District · 1983–1985
- Milwaukee [Wisconsin] Municipal CourtJudge · 1975–1979
- Milwaukee, WisconsinPrincipal city attorney · 1973–1975
- Milwaukee, WisconsinAssistant city attorney · 1970–1973
U.S. Army company commander1967–1969
Office of the Attorney General, U.S. Department of JusticeAttorney · 1969- Private practice, Milwaukee, Wisconsin1966–1967
Appointments
1992–2016 · Appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
J.D. · 1966- University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeB.S. · 1963