Susan M. Crawford

Susan Margaret Crawford (born March 1, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist from Madison, Wisconsin. She is a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, since taking office on August 1, 2025. She previously served seven years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Dane County (2018–2025). Earlier in her career, she was chief legal counsel to Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and served as administrator of the Office of Enforcement and Science in the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Before that, she had served as an assistant attorney general in the Iowa Department of Justice and then the Wisconsin Department of Justice; in both roles, she specialized in criminal appeals. During the 2025 election campaign, she was identified as a liberal candidate and received support from Democratic Party donors. In her career as an attorney, she took on cases in support of labor unions, women's rights, voting rights, and public education.