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The municipal and district courts bers of the profession, on the bench and are in charge of the criminal matters of off of it, who, by reason of their legal the city and county of Milwaukee, the learning, large experience and great district court having jurisdiction of success in the actual practice, seem to matters arising under the ordinances of tower above their associates. And to the city and of the preliminary exami some of these reference will be made. nation of offenders. Change of venue Judge James G. Jenkins, retired, is, may be taken from the municipal to confessedly, one of the leaders of the the circuit court. Milwaukee bar. The civil courts He is no longer were recently in the active created courts by practice, but his our state Legis mind is still lature and are of young. And he limited civil jurischooses to pass diction. They his declining were designed to years as Dean of afford speedy jus the Law Depart" tice to litigants ment of Marhaving small quette Univer matters in dis sity, a local pute. Their juris educational instidiction is limited tution. The work which he is to two thousand dollars. doing in this field gives added luster The gentlemen occupying judi to the honors which are already cial positions in securely his. As the Milwaukee courts are, with an advocate, Judge Jenkins a few exceptions, GENERAL FREDERICK C. WINKLER had few superiors counted among Ex-President of the Wisconsin Sta1e Bar Association the best lawyers of in the city or the city. In most state. And as a instances, they have proved their right, judge, he was painstaking, honest and by test in open court, to hold their just. As a platform orator, his reputa present places. And there is no well- tion extended far beyond the boundaries organized movement to displace any of of the state. them. This is complimentary alike to Hon. Francis E. McGovern, the the judiciary and to the constituency present Governor of the state, is an which elected its members. active member of the local bar. And, To attempt anything like a compre although a comparatively young man, hensive presentation of the personnel he has taken a ranking position as a of the bench and bar of Milwaukee successful lawyer in our midst. For eight would far exceed the limits of this years he was connected with the office article. And no such attempt will be of the prosecuting attorney of Mil undertaken. There are, however, mem- waukee County, four years as assistant