Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Resigns After Felony Conviction
“Dugan asked for her resignation to take immediate effect.”
Judge Hannah Dugan of Wisconsin was found guilty of obstructing federal immigration officials two weeks ago, in the case from last spring where she helped an illegal immigrant escape her courthouse.
She hasn’t been sentenced yet, but she resigned her office rather than waiting to be impeached, which Republicans threatened her with if she remained in office.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports:
Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan resigns after felony conviction
A Milwaukee County judge is resigning after being convicted of helping a man avoid immigration enforcement.
Sixty-six-year-old Hannah Dugan on Saturday submitted her resignation letter to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, writing that the action came with a “heavy heart.” Dugan asked for her resignation to take immediate effect.
“Behind the bench, I have presided over thousands and thousands of cases — with a commitment to treat all persons with dignity and respect, to act justly, deliberatively, and consistently, and to maintain a courtroom with the decorum and safety the public deserves,” Dugan wrote.
Dugan was arrested on April 25 after federal prosecutors filed two charges against her.
The charges stem from an April 18 incident, in which Dugan led a man through a side door of her courtroom and said his hearing would be rescheduled over Zoom.
That’s after federal agents had showed up at the Milwaukee County courthouse to arrest the man for being in the country illegally. The man had been scheduled for a hearing in Dugan’s courtroom on that day on misdemeanor domestic battery charges.
Following a four-day trial at the federal courthouse in Milwaukee, a jury found Dugan guilty of a felony count of impeding or obstructing a proceeding. The jury found her not guilty of a misdemeanor charge of concealing an individual to prevent his discovery or arrest.
BREAKING: Hannah Dugan is resigning immediately as a Milwaukee County judge after her felony obstruction conviction pic.twitter.com/l3fgvAm5ti
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) January 3, 2026
You can read Dugan’s resignation letter here.
More from FOX 6 in Wisconsin:
Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Saturday praised Dugan’s decision, saying in a statement: “I’m glad Dugan did the right thing by resigning and followed the clear direction from the Wisconsin Constitution.”
Democrat Ann Jacobs, who is chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission board, said she agreed with Dugan that Milwaukee should have a permanent judge in place while this fight plays out.
“Despite her situation, she is ever the champion of justice, wanting to remove the judiciary from a political battle over her fate. I’m sure this is terribly hard for her but she is true to her faith and her principles,” Jacobs said in a post on X.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, a supporter of Dugan, said he is on board with her resignation.
“It’s an unfortunate situation, but our job is to make sure, not just our Milwaukee County Courthouse, but our justice system, is something that we can trust and continue to believe in,” he said.
It’ll be fascinating to see if she sees any actual prison time. No one is above the law, right?
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Hanna “Diner” Dugan..
Defeated Ozempic in round one
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Well, bye.
Hunh.
It’s a shame she didn’t have the same mentality of respect and dignity toward the victim of his brutality.
“Despite her situation, she is ever the champion of justice, ”
She’s a criminal who aided another criminal. No different than a getaway driver or a lookout on a robbery. There’s nothing noble or just about her or what she did. She’s scum.
My apologies, but I can provide you with just one Thumbs Up.
Took awhile
On Wisconsin
https://youtu.be/DPwDoTbRDag?si=oZTvRVdSNyRZUOev
Well I’m amazed she resigned. Good for her maintaining a modicum decorum. I thought she was going to fight her conviction through appeal and refuse to resign making then have to impeach her. THat is what democrats generally do.
Is 9 years as a Judge enough service to give her a pension?
hope not
Here in Cheeseland, a felony conviction of any public “servant” means loss of pension – cops, judges, politicians of every flavor. However, any employee contributions are returned.
The Dem sobbing and simping for this piece of crap is disgusting.
I admit that I had not heard that she had been convicted, and admit that I did not expect it [this is Wisconsin, after all]. I am surprised that a member of the Nomenklatura could be convicted. I suspect that the resignation is in effect an offering to go quietly in return for no actual jail time.
Subotai Bahadur
And apparently a martyr’s eulogy or three from sloppy Dem kindreds
She’ll get probation and then launch a lucrative speaking tour and frequent appearances on MS Now.
She has a face for radio
She is a felon. She can’t vote. She can’t own a gun. Probation means she has to meet once a month with her probation officer. She won’t be able to travel outside her county of residence without permission. If she does travel she will need a letter from the person she is visiting attesting that they know her and they realize she is a felon on probation. And since it’s a federal felony Governor Evers can’t give her a pardon. She just needs to embrace the suck.
All true, Moe, but you are forgetting one thing: Dugan took one for (the) team-Dem.
No, she didn’t. She may have thought she did, but they’re all: “We never told you to do this. Do you see anyone else doing this? Don’t put this on us. This was all your harebrained idea, so now you pay the price.”
She can vote as soon as her sentence is over.
And the law preventing her from ever owning a gun again is clearly unconstitutional, and is likely to be struck down before she is likely to want one (if she ever does).
She can vote right now. She can vote right up to the day of sentencing. In WI she can vote when she gets out of prison, doubtful she will go, when all of her sentence including probation is over.
It’s an interesting point as to whether a state (or the Feds) can disqualify a person from firearms ownership after a felony conviction. Lots of states have these laws, and lots of ex-felons go back to prison if/when caught with a weapon on the street.
An absolutist stance on the 2A would clearly regard this as unconstitutional, but as once was quipped, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” It would be an interesting 1L exercise to brief both sides of this.
She should also be disbarred.
1 down, 100s more to go.
“It’s an unfortunate situation, but our job is to make sure, not just our Milwaukee County Courthouse, but our justice system, is something that we can trust and continue to believe in,” he said.
It’s not a friggen “situation.” it’s a friggen felony perpetrated willfully and publicly assuming she would never get questioned, let alone caught. Put her in GenPop someplace where there are lots of male prisoners who think they are chicks.
But we know from her actions that all of that was self-righteous gibberish and that she was likely never just and often delivered injustice to victims of crimes.
She is appealing and hasn’t been sentenced yet. I wonder if she is angling for a plea deal to drop any further appeals. Cut her conviction to a misdemeanor and probation or something so she can run for office in WI again.
And there are thousands in our government like her.
Such bullschiff, her statement about trying to be fair to everyone should mandate an extra ten years in prison to her sentence.
Yippee! The first scalp of what I hope are many!
So, grab that pension and go. One consolation she won’t be turning felons loose on the population, that will be some other lefties job now.
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