What is Shirley Abrahamson?
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = The Honorable | name = Shirley Abrahamson | image = Shirley Abrahamson.jpg | imagesize = | caption = |order = 25th |title = Chief Justice of the {{nobreak|[[Wisconsin Supreme Court]]}} | term_start = August 1, 1996 | term_end = April 29, 2015 | predecessor = [[Roland B. Day]] | successor = [[Patience D. Roggensack]] |office1 = [[List of justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court|Justice]] of the {{nobreak|[[Wisconsin Supreme Court]]}} | term_start1 = August 1976 | term_end1 = August 1, 2019 | appointer1 = [[Patrick Lucey]] | predecessor1 = [[Horace W. Wilkie]] | successor1 = [[Brian Hagedorn]] |birth_name = Shirley Schlanger | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|12|17}} | birth_place = [[New York, New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|12|19|1933|12|17}} | death_place = [[Berkeley]], [[California]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_cause = [[Pancreatic cancer]] |restingplace = <!-- DEPRECATED FIELD | religion = Judaism --> | spouse = Seymour Abrahamson (m. 1953; died 2016) | children = Daniel | alma_mater = [[New York University]] <small>([[Bachelor of Arts|A.B.]])</small><br /> [[Indiana University]] <small>([[Juris Doctor|J.D.]])</small> <br>[[University of Wisconsin-Madison]] <small>([[LL.M.]], [[S.J.D.]])</small> | footnotes = }} '''Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson''' (December 17, 1933 &ndash; December 19, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. She was a member and former Chief Justice of the [[Wisconsin Supreme Court]]. She was appointed to the court in 1976 by [[Governor of Wisconsin|Governor]] [[Patrick Lucey]]. She became [[Female state supreme court justices|first woman]] on [[Wisconsin]]'s high court. ==Career== She was the only woman on the court from 1976 until 1993. Abrahamson was re-elected to the [[Wisconsin Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] in 1979, 1989, 1999, and 200