Background
Blanchard was born on November 7, 1958 in State College, Pennsylvania.
Blanchard was born on November 7, 1958 in State College, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from the University of Michigan and with honors from the Northwestern University School of Law.
Blanchard is married with three children. Blanchard was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, Illinois from 1990 to 1997. In 1997, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin and joined a private practice.
He later became District Attorney of Dane County, Wisconsin and served in that position from 2001 until his election to the Court of Appeals in 2010.