Board of Regents
Michael J. Spector
Quarles & Brady, LLP
411 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
mjs@quarles.com
(414) 277-5879
Appointed: June 13, 2005
Term Expires: May 1, 2012
Committee Memberships:
- Executive
- Education (Vice Chair)
- Personnel Matters Review (Chair)
- Student Discipline and Other Student Appeals
- Hospital Authority Board
- Special Regent Committee for UW-Parkside Chancellor Search
Biography
Michael J. Spector worked for 36 years with Quarles & Brady LLP, where he served as Chair and Managing Partner before his retirement in 2002. Spector also previously served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and as chair of Governor Jim Doyle’s Task Force on Educational Excellence. He is currently a member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, the Leadership Council for the Organization of American Historians, and the UW Pathways to Excellence Board of Visitors. Spector earned his bachelor’s degree from UW-Madison, his law degree from Harvard University Law School, and attended the London School of Economics.