Michael Tobin has worked for the SPD since 1979, except for two years off in the mid-eighties for good behavior. He started as a staff attorney in the Shell Lake office in 1979 and moved to Eau Claire in 1980 after budgetary considerations resulted in the Shell Lake office closing. Mr. Tobin left the agency in 1984 to teach at the University of Puget Sound Law School, before returning to the SPD in 1986 as First Assistant of the Hudson region.
Mr. Tobin has served as the Director of the SPD Trial Division since 1994. He has spoken at numerous SPD training programs, co-authored two chapters of the SPD Policies and Procedures Manual, and authored 4 supplements to the Wisconsin Criminal Defense Manual published by the State Bar, including the 2005 supplement. He has served on the Wisconsin Sentencing Commission since its inception in 2003 and on PPAC (State Courts’ Policy and Planning Advisory Committee) since 2001. He has co-taught a criminal procedure course at the University of Wisconsin Law School since 1998. He is also Vice-Chair of the State Bar’s Law-Related Education Committee.
Mr. Tobin earned his undergraduate degree at Swarthmore College and his law degree at the University of Texas at Austin.
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