Assistant Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice
Frances Kern is an assistant attorney general at the Wisconsin Department of Justice. She served as an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission; an assistant attorney general in the civil division of the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General; and clerked for Judge Thomas Kalitowski, Judge Randolph Peterson, Judge Heidi Schellhas, and Judge Denise Reilly of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, and Judge Jeanne J. Graham of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. She also practiced business litigation for a time. As a law student, she served as executive editor of the William Mitchell Law Review and published scholarship in Volumes 38 and 39. Ms. Kern is a past president of the Mitchell Hamline alumni board and is co-chair of the Federal Bar Association’s law school outreach committee.
Mitchell Hamline Trustee
Trustee since 2018.
Education
J.D., William Mitchell College of LawM.A., UCLA
B.A., Carleton College
Alumni Association