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Richard W. Cutler / Retired Partner
Professional Experience
Richard Cutler is a retired partner with Quarles & Brady LLP. His practice included significant experience in annexations, municipal law, incorporations and zoning.

Education and Honors
  • Yale Law School (LL.B., 1941)
    • Phi Beta Kappa (Member).

  • Yale University (B.A., Graduated with Exceptional Distinction in Economics., 1938)
    • Major: Economics

Bar Admissions
District of Columbia, 1974
Wisconsin, 1950
New York, 1942
Connecticut, 1941

Court Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court

Professional and Civic Activities
  • Regional Land Use Plan Implementation (Chairman, 1992-present).
  • Regional Transportation Authority Study Committee (Chairman, 1990-1991).
  • Milwaukee Innovation Center, Inc. (President, 1984-1985; Executive Vice President, 1985; Director, 1984-1989).
  • Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewage District (Chairman, Strategic Planning Staff Committee; Secretary, Technology and Innovation Committee; Greater Milwaukee Committee, 1981-1982).
  • Council of National Municipal Leagues (Member, 1975-1978; Director, 1980-1989).
  • Wisconsin Resources Development Board (Member, 1967-1968).
  • Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (Member, 1960-1984; Secretary, 1963-1977, 1980-1984).
  • Governor's Metropolitan Study Commission (Member, 1957-1961).
  • Greater Milwaukee Committee (1957-present).
  • City Attorney for Brookfield, Wisconsin (1954-1960).
  • Legal Aid Society, N.Y.C. (Attorney, Criminal Branch, 1946-1947).
  • American Bar Associations (Member).
  • Milwaukee Bar Association (Member).
  • State Bar of Wisconsin (Member).
  • Yale Development Board (Member, 1974-1979).
  • Citizens Governmental Research Bureau (Trustee, 1978-1985).
  • Kelch Corporation (Director).
  • Village of Fox Point (Member; Plan Commission, 1951-1993).
  • Milwaukee Country Club (Member).
  • Town Club (Member).
  • Milwaukee Club (Member).
  • University Club (Member).
  • Sunset Investment Company (Partner).
Languages
German
French
Spanish

Selected Presentations/Publications

Publications
  • Author, “Zoning Law and Practice in Wisconsin,” Greater Milwaukee Committee, 1967.

  • Author, “How to Create Manufacturing Jobs in Wisconsin,” Greater Milwaukee Committee, 1982.

Cases

  • Milwaukee vs. Illinois, U.S. Supreme Court (1981) and 5 or 6 Wisconsin Supreme Court cases such as Beloit vs. Beloit.

  • Bringing the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team from Seattle to Milwaukee in 1970.