MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A former Republican legislative aide who worked as a top official in Gov. Scott Walker’s first nine months in office was tapped Monday to serve on the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
Jodi Jensen will replace original commission member Don Millis, who submitted his resignation letter on Friday. He said he could no longer serve due to commitments with his Sun Prairie law practice. Millis is the first of the commission’s six members to resign since the panel was created in June 2016.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald appointed Millis and tapped Jensen to replace him.
Jensen worked seven years in the Legislature, including as chief of staff to then-Republican Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch. She worked for Walker’s transition team in 2010 and was a top aide in his administration before leaving to be a private practice attorney in October 2011.
She works for the law firm of Godfrey and Kahn in Madison. According to her biography on the law firm’s website, she “helps clients navigate and comply with campaign finance, ethics and lobbying laws.”
As a member of the Elections Commission she will oversee the state’s election laws. The Ethics Commission deals with campaign finance, ethics and lobbying laws.
Both commissions were created by the Republican-controlled Legislature to replace the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board last year. The commissions consist of partisan appointees.
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This story has been corrected to show that Jodi Jensen was chief of staff to Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch only, not for Senate Majority Leader Fitzgerald as well.
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