Connor Hansen

Who was Connor Hansen?

Connor Theodore Hansen was a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He was born in Freeman, South Dakota and he was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Hansen served in the FBI as a special agent during World War II. He served on the Eau Claire County Board from 1947-1957. In 1958, Governor Vernon Wallace Thomson appointed Hansen judge of the Eau Claire County Court. In 1967, he was appointed by Governor Warren Knowles to the Wisconsin Supreme Court; he retired in 1980. Justice Hansen died in 1987.