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About
Tim
“I believe that the state legislature has a job to do,” Tim Kiefer says. “I’m running for the Assembly because I want to work on issues that matter, like
getting smart on crime, providing health care coverage to all Wisconsin residents, and
cleaning up Dane County’s lakes. I’ll be focused on finding solutions,
not scoring partisan points. ”
Tim Kiefer is a Dane County criminal prosecutor, working every day to get
results in court for the people of Dane County and for victims of crime. He’s taken
tough cases to trial and earned guilty verdicts. When representing you as your Assembly
Representative, Tim Kiefer will maintain that same focus on getting results.
Tim Kiefer is the first person from his family to go to college. His
father is a telephone lineman and his mother is a school secretary. Today his brother
Randy is a self-employed handyman, and his brother Chad is also a telephone lineman. His
sister Darice is a former Air Force officer who now works as a business analyst for a
mining company.
In 1989, Tim Kiefer moved to Madison from his hometown of Kenosha. He
helped put himself through school at UW-Madison by working as a dishwasher at a sorority
house, a lifeguard, and a store clerk. His grandmother, who herself had just a sixth grade
education, gave him some of her savings to help her grandson get the college education
that she never had for herself.
After college, Tim Kiefer worked on constituent issues for two State
Assembly representatives, where he saw first hand how the power of law can help people and
create change. That experience helped inspire him to become a lawyer.
Tim went on to Harvard Law School, working during his summers in Madison
at Foley & Lardner and at the Dane County District Attorney’s Office.
For the past ten years, Tim Kiefer has been active in Democratic political
campaigns in Wisconsin. He worked as a volunteer for the 1998 congressional
campaign of Dane County Executive Rick Phelps, the 2004 presidential campaign of Senator
John Kerry, and the 2002 and 2006 gubernatorial campaigns of Governor Jim Doyle.
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1998, Tim Kiefer has worked as a
lawyer. His first law job was in private practice specializing in commercial
litigation. He later worked as a Wisconsin assistant attorney general, where he defended
state employees against prison inmate lawsuits.
In early 2005, Tim temporarily left the practice of law to a work as a US State
Department diplomat and was stationed in Washington, Mexico, and Iraq. In those
capacities he met with foreign government leaders, worked to prevent visa fraud, and
enforced US immigration laws. During his time with the State Department, he spent three
months in the US Embassy in Baghdad. He resigned from the State Department over his
opposition to the Bush Administration’s Iraq War.
Growing up in a union family, Tim Kiefer saw firsthand how unions protect workers
and ensure family-supporting wages. Today Tim Kiefer is himself a union member.
He belongs to the Association of State Prosecutors, which represents assistant district
attorneys throughout the state.
Tim Kiefer is active in our community. Tim is 36 years old and resides on
Hayes Road on the east side of Madison. He is a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic
Church; Knights of Columbus Council 6371; the State Bar of Wisconsin; the Dane County Bar
Association; the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association; the Harvard Club of Wisconsin
(vice president); the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin (former member of the board of
directors); Madison MAGNET; and Friends of Troy Gardens.
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