Derek Mosley named AACCWI’s 2024 Business Champion 

Derek Mosley, director of the Lubar Center for Public Policy and Civic Education, was named the 2024 Business Champion by the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin.  Mosley will be awarded the honor at the AACCWI’s annual Breakfast of Champions on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at Fiserv Forum.  Mosley, a 1995 graduate of Marquette University Law School, was named director of the Lubar Center in November 2022 following a 20-year career as a judge of the Milwaukee Municipal Court.  Mosley served as an assistant district attorney for Milwaukee County from 1995 to 2002. He was then appointed by the Milwaukee Common Council to fill the vacancy in Branch 2 of the city’s Municipal Court starting on Aug. 1, 2002. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest African American to be appointed judge in the State of Wisconsin. In August 2004, he was first appointed Presiding Judge of the Milwaukee Municipal Court.  Mosley sits on the Board of Directors of several organizations, including the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Froedtert Hospital, the Urban Ecology Center, the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Safe & Sound, Divine Savior Holy Angels High School, the United Way Diversity Leadership Committee and Transcenter for Youth.  He...