UW bio:
After receiving her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2005, Cecelia Klingele served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Barbara B. Crabb of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, Judge Susan H. Black of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court. Previously, she was a supervising attorney at the law school’s Frank J. Remington Center, and in spring 2014 she served as a visiting professor at Notre Dame Law School.
Professor Klingele’s academic research focuses on criminal justice administration, with an emphasis on community supervision of offenders on conditional release. She is Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code: Sentencing revision, External Co-Director of the University of Minnesota Robina Institute’s Sentencing Law & Policy Program, and past co-chair of the Academic Committee of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section.
She teaches courses in criminal law, Constitutional criminal procedure, criminal justice administration, and sentencing and corrections. In additional to her teaching and research, Professor Klingele is a faculty associate of the Frank J. Remington Center and serves on the Executive Committee of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy, an organization of faculty and instructional staff dedicated to promoting effective teaching and learning on campus and nationally by encouraging innovation, experimentation, and dialogue.
Professor Klingele and her husband live in Madison. They have one grown son, and seven more children at home who ensure life is never boring.