WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — Marathon County District Attorney Theresa Wetzsteon has been named the 2022 Wisconsin District Attorney of the Year by the State District Attorney’s Association.
“The powers of the district attorney are awesome and Theresea Wetzsteon wields those powers with fairness, justice, deliberateness, and an awesome sense of her own responsibility,” said Assistant Attorney General Robert Kaiser.
According to a press release from the WDAA Wetzsteon’s efforts to prosecute Cindy Schulz-Juedes for the 2006 killing of her former husband Ken Juedes also factored in the decision. Wetzsteon and her staff pointed to a lack of remorse from Schulz-Juedes along with the amount of debt she was able to clear thanks to a financial windfall from life insurance money.
The case draw national attention and was recently featured on an episode of NBC’s Dateline.
Wetzsteon received the award during the recent State Prosecutors’ Education & Training Conference held in Lake Geneva.
