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Israel Ramón was appointed to the position of Register of Deeds on May 21, 2019. He joins Milwaukee County from the law firm Ramón & Medrano, S.C., where he has been a shareholder since 2013. He is also a supplemental court commissioner appointed by Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Carolina M. Stark in 2014.

A native of Sabinas Hidalgo in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, Ramón came to the United States when he was 8 months old. Raised in Waukegan, Illinois, with two brothers and a sister, his parents insisted their children excel in school. Ramón became a U.S. citizen in 1987 and received his law degree from Marquette University Law School in 1994.

Prior to practicing law, Ramón was a registered respiratory and clinical instructor for 10 years. For the past 25 years, he has practiced law in the areas of workers’ compensation and Social Security disability. He has served as chair of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Annual Worker’s Compensation Update seminars and is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Association of Worker’s Compensation Attorneys, the Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association and the LGBT Bar Association of Wisconsin. He has served on the boards of the ACLU of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, Voces de la Frontera, Centro Hispano Milwaukee and the Spanish Centers of Kenosha, Racine and Walworth Counties. He is a pro bono attorney for the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin.

He holds an associate's degree from the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois; a bachelor's degree in management and business (magna cum laude) from Barat College in Lake Forrest, Illinois; and juris doctorate from Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee.

He is a member of the Wisconsin Register of Deeds Association and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.

"I pledge to work very hard for the residents of Milwaukee County to meet the statutory obligations of the Register of Deeds Office, continue its efficient operations, improve on the delivery of services where needed, move the Office forward technologically and be transparent in what we do to restore the public’s confidence in our operations.”

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