Interesting Fact: Rebecca is fluent in German and has lived in Berlin and Dresden, Germany.

Primary Areas of Practice: Family Law, Trusts and Estates

Rebecca focuses on divorce, child placement and custody, and stepparent adoption. She takes a special interest in issues of international family law, including the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction and Islamic family law.

• Graduated magna cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School, Order of the Coif. She received a Loeb Scholarship in recognition of outstanding work in family law from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
• Served as a judicial intern to Justice Ann Walsh Bradley on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Interned with the Family Law and Restorative Justice Project, Legal Aid for Institutionalized Persons, University of Wisconsin Law School
• Recipient of Wisconsin State Bar awards for academic achievement in family law, criminal procedure and business organizations
• Graduated summa cum laude from DePaul University, Chicago, with an undergraduate degree in vocal performance
• Serves as a board member, Friends of the Al. Ringling Theatre, Baraboo, and as Co-Chair, “Swingin’ Summer Rent Party” fundraiser, Safe Harbor of Dane County Child Advocacy Center

More about Rebecca:

Rebecca holds a Ph.D. in musicology, and formerly served as an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina. Her book, Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation, won the 2001 Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.