Dane County Circuit Court Judge Angela Bartell, the longest tenured judge currently serving in Dane County, will end her career in February after 30 years on the bench, she said in a letter to Gov. James E. Doyle Monday.
Bartell became the second woman judge in Dane County on Jan. 3, 1978, when she was appointed as a county judge under the old judicial system, replacing Judge William Eich, who was in turn replacing the retiring William Sachtjen as a circuit court judge. The next year Wisconsin adopted a restructured court system and all county judges were made circuit judges.