Welcome to the Waukesha County Circuit Courts web site. The Judges, Clerk of Circuit Court, and staff in the Waukesha County court system are committed to providing a fair and efficient system of justice that is worthy of the trust and confidence of the public.
**Effective September 1, 2018 documents requiring the signature of a court official must include a blank 3" top margin on page 1 and a blank 1/2" top margin on all subsequent pages. Court software will place the court official's electronic signature in the heftier margin on the first page, along with the filed stamp and a header containing the case number, document number, filed date, and pagination. The header will be applied to the top 1/2" of all pages of documents filed with the courts, whether or not a court official signature is necessary. More information can be found here.
**Effective July 2018 - the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department will hold sheriff sales on the second and fourth Wednesday morning of every month, at 10:00 am in the Sheriff's Department lobby. Additionally, with the passage of 2017 Wisconsin Act 104 in December 2017, there are some legislative changes which can be found here.
**Effective July 1, 2016 - New Wisconsin Rules regarding: Protected Information and Mandatory eFiling. Important changes to some Family and Civil forms. For further information see http://www.wicourts.gov.
**Effective November 15, 2016 - Waukesha County is a mandatory eFiling county. Please see the eFiling link below for more information.
Requests to have court documents faxed now fall under this Outgoing Faxes Policy. Click on the news item for details about the policy.
Clerk of Court Policy on Charges for Outgoing Faxes
Please click here to see the policy document that was updated on 2-06-2019 and lists the charges for sending documents via Fax from the Clerk of Courts office.
Starting on Monday, January 21, 2019 all intake court activities previously held in courtroom CG-49 will be held in courtroom C266...
New Intake Courtroom - C266
Starting on Monday, January 21, 2019 all intake court activities previously held in courtroom CG-49 will be held in courtroom C266 until the year 2021 when the new Secure Court Facility is scheduled to be complete. Courtroom C266 is on the second floor of the courthouse, in the western wing of the building. The new bond room will be room C272 and will also be located adjacent to the new intake courtroom.
Please join us at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, January 18th in room C266 for a walk through of the modified courtroom and bond room layouts.
The first Judicial rotation will occur January 2, 2019. Another Judicial rotation will occur on February 1, 2019...
2019 Judicial Rotation and Assignment Changes
Judicial rotation will occur January 2, 2019. The changes are as follows:
Circuit Court Judge
Current Division
New Division
Courtroom
Patrick C. Haughney
Family
Michael Aprahamian
Criminal/Traffic
Family
C263
Laura F. Lau
Criminal/Traffic
Criminal/Traffic
C115
The full January 2nd rotation order can be found here. The Alcohol Treatment Court assignment change can be found here.
Informaton on the February 1st rotation can be found here.
Circuit Court Judge
Current Division
New Division
Courtroom
Jennifer R. Dorow
Civil
Criminal/Traffic
C215
Ralph M. Ramirez
Criminal/Traffic
Civil
C267
Other Changes:
When sending mail to those judges who are rotating in January, please note on the front of the envelope, the division for which the mail is intended.
Please take special note that the current phone numbers for the Deputy Clerks and Calendar Clerks for the above judiciary will remain the same, despite the fact that they are rotating to a new Circuit Court Division.
Governor Walker appoints Attorney Genral Brad Schimel to the Waukesha County Circuit Court...
Attorney General Schimel Appointed to Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge
On November 20, 2018 Governor Walker appointed Attorney Genral Brad Schimel to the Waukesha County Circuit Court. Please see the offical release for more details.
Judge William F. Hue of Jefferson County has been appointed Deputy Chief Judge, effective 11/7/2018.
Deputy Chief Judge Appointment
Effective November 7, 2018, Judge William F. Hue, Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge, Branch 2 has been appointed Deputy Chief Judge of the Third Judicial Administrative District.