Education
Marquette University Law School. Marquette University.
Marquette University Law School. Marquette University.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Griesbach received a Bachelor of Arts from Marquette University in 1976 and a Juris Doctor from Marquette University Law School in 1979. He was a law clerk to the Honorary Bruce F. Beilfuss, Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1979 to 1980.
He was a staff attorney of United States. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1980 to 1982, thereafter entering private practice in Wisconsin from 1982 to 1987.
He was an assistant district attorney in Brown County, Wisconsin from 1987 to 1995, and a judge on the Brown County Circuit Court from 1995 to 2002. On January 23, 2002, Griesbach was nominated by President George West. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
This was a new seat created by 114 Statistics 2762. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 25, 2002, and received his commission on May 1, 2002.
He became Chief Judge on October 31, 2012.