Paul Lundsten

Paul Lundsten (born August 11, 1955) is an American lawyer and retired judge. He served on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals for the Madison-based District IV court from 2000 until his retirement in 2019. Early life and career Lundsten was born on August 11, 1955, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1980, and went on to obtain his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1983. The same year he graduated from law school, Lundsten was hired by Bronson La Follette, then Wisconsin's Attorney General, to serve as an Assistant Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Lundsten would continue to work as an assistant attorney general until his appointment to the Court of Appeals in 2000, serving under two more attorneys general: Don Hanaway and Jim Doyle. At the Department of Justice, he was initially assigned to the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Over his 17 years at the department, he worked on various fraud investigations and consumer protection cases, becoming a specialist in handling criminal cases before the appeals court. Judicial career