Past Honorees:
2024 – Kelli Thompson, former Wisconsin State Public Defender
2023 – Judge Carl Ashley, Milwaukee County
2022 – Assistant State Public Defender Liesl Nelson, Founding member of WATCP, Pierce and St. Croix County Treatment Court
2021 – Judge Mary Triggiano, Milwaukee County
2019 – Wisconsin Department of Justice, TAD Program Staff
2018 – Judge Kathryn Foster, Waukesha County
2017 – Judge John Markson
2016 – Patrick Isenberger
2015 – Shelly Cern, The First Statewide Drug Court Coordinator
2014 – Lila Schmidt, Dane County, First Drug Court Coordinator in the State of Wisconsin
2013 – The Office of the Wisconsin State Public Defender
2012 – Assistant District Attorney Kenneth Farmer, Dane County, First Drug Court Assistant District Attorney
2011 – Jane Klekamp, Director of Justice Support La Crosse County
2010 – Judge Lisa Stark, Drug Court Judge Eau Claire County
2009 -Judge Elliott Levine, Founding President WATCP
2008 – Judge Jack Aulik (Posthumously), Dane County, First Drug Court Judge in Wisconsin
2007 – Judge John Perlich, Drug Court Judge La Crosse County
2005 – Judge Stewart Schwartz, Drug Court Judge Dane County
About The Award:
The Jack Aulik Award is presented each year by the Wisconsin Association of Treatment Court Professionals (WATCP) to an individual or organization in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of Wisconsin’s problem-solving court movement. The award is named in honor of Judge Jack Aulik, who served as the Dane County Circuit Court Judge from 1986-1998. He is credited for launching Wisconsin’s first drug court. The Aulik Award recipients have demonstrated extraordinary leadership in promoting the establishment, effectiveness and/or sustainability of problem-solving courts throughout the state. Their efforts have had an impact on the problem-solving court movement, thus positively affecting the lives of Wisconsin’s citizens to break the cycles of addiction, mental illness and criminal activity, while increasing public safety.
