Section 978.01 – Number of district attorneys; election; term

May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Wisconsin

(1) There shall be 71 district attorneys elected for full terms at the general election held in 2008 and quadrennially thereafter. The regular term of office for each district attorney is 4 years, commencing on the first Monday of January next succeeding his or her election. Each county is a prosecutorial unit and shall elect a district attorney, except that Shawano and Menominee counties form one 2-county prosecutorial unit and shall elect a single district attorney by the combined electorate of the 2 counties.
(2)

(a) Except as provided in par. (b), each district attorney serves on a full-time basis.
(b) A district attorney serves on a part-time basis if his or her prosecutorial unit consists of Buffalo, Florence, or Pepin county.

Wis. Stat. ยง 978.01

1989 a. 31 ss. 2900, 2900c; 1991 a. 39; 1999 a. 9; 2007 a. 20, 158.