Jennifer Nashold

District IV—Madison

Career History:
Appellate Judge, District IV Court of Appeals (elected 2019)
Administrative Law Judge, Wisconsin Department of Administration, Division of Hearings and Appeals (2011-2019)
Chief Legal Counsel, Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (2010-2011)
General Counsel, Wisconsin Public Service Commission (2007-2010)
Commissioner and Chairperson, Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission (2004-2007)
Assistant Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice (1998-2004)
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, Ada County, Idaho (1996-1997)
Law Clerk, Judge Jesse Walters, Idaho Court of Appeals (1994-1996)
Law Clerk, Justice Miriam Shearing, Nevada Supreme Court (1993-1994)

To read the full official biography, click here. Source: wicourts.gov

About

About Judge Nashold.

Jennifer Nashold is a judge on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals — District IV, where she has served since 2019. District IV covers Madison and the surrounding southern and western counties of Wisconsin.

Before joining the Court of Appeals, Nashold spent two decades working extensively in Wisconsin state government and administrative law. She served as an Administrative Law Judge for the Wisconsin Department of Administration, as Chief Legal Counsel for the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, as General Counsel for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, and as Commissioner and Chairperson of the Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission. Earlier in her career, she served as an Assistant Attorney General with the Wisconsin Department of Justice, as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Ada County, Idaho, and as a law clerk for the Idaho Court of Appeals.

Nashold was elected to the Court of Appeals in 2019.

Featured Opinions

Notable opinions.

Birge v. Simplicity

Authored the majority. A consumer-protection case touching on the statute of frauds. Nashold's deep administrative-law background made her a natural authority on this slice of the District IV docket. With only nine total opinion appearances during the evaluation window, she did not write separately on any other case, and Birge is the clearest available read on her authored work.

A consumer-protection dispute that also involved an old rule called the statute of frauds—basically, certain contracts have to be in writing to be enforceable. Nashold's pre-bench background was in agency law, which gave her a strong base for this kind of case. The opinion is careful and tracks the law step by step. With only one written opinion in the window, this is the main reading we have on her work.