• Madison Lawyer since 1987
  
  
• Federal Senior Executive in Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for three years
  
  
• Attorney in SEC Office of General Counsel for 8 years
  
  
• Graduate of U.W. Law School and Member of the Law Review
  
  
• Legislative Staff of the Wisconsin State Senate for 3 years
  
  
• M.A. in American History; Graduate work in U.S. Constitutional History under Stanley Kutler at the UW-Madison

• Taught American Government at UW-Rock County and Loyola University of New Orleans
  
  
• Taught Corporation Law at the Catholic University of America
  
  
  
• Director of the Madison Institute; Former Director of Dane County
  League of Women Voters
  
  

• Finance Committee Member for the Village of Shorewood Hills
  

• Member of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin and Dane County Bar Associations; the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Coordinating Committee; the Legal Association for Women, Common Cause; Clean Wisconsin; the Natural Resources Defense Council; and the Sierra Club
  

• Guest columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal and the Capital Times; wrote article in the Wisconsin Lawyer on the partial veto power (March, 2008)
  
  

• Speaker before the Dane County Bar Association, the Legal Association for Women, the Madison Institute, the Wisconsin Historical Museum, and classes at MATC and the UW Law School
  
  
• Married to Marilyn Townsend, an attorney who represents working men and women with respect to discrimination and employment issues. Their children are Jon and Ben (West 2002 and 2010) Katherine (West class of 2013).

Authorized and paid for Wade for Assembly, Marilyn Townsend, Treasurer