Lifetime Achievement Award

Julianna Ebert, Law ’81
Whitefish Bay, Wis.

Throughout her career, Julie Ebert has shined as an example of leadership and service. She credits her late grandfather, Arthur L. Ebert, a 1918 graduate of the Law School, for inspiring her path.

The son of a German immigrant who worked for Pabst, Art became an attorney because his employer saw his promise and helped him attend Marquette Law School. Later, after Julie’s father (also a lawyer) died suddenly in 1960, Art had a standing date with young Julie and her three siblings, taking them on weekly adventures around Milwaukee.

“While I think my grandfather was very skeptical about a woman, his granddaughter, becoming a lawyer, he is the reason I am a lawyer,” says Julie, who attended the Law School as a St. Thomas More Scholar.

By the time she concluded her legal career at Quarles & Brady LLP, Julie led the firm’s nationally recognized public finance group. She also served as president of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the Wisconsin School Attorneys Association. She is past president of the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) Foundation Board and continues to serve on the Board as well as on the AFS Foundation of Greater Milwaukee.

Julie sits on the Marquette Law School Advisory Board, and she and her husband, Frank Daily, Jour ’64, Law ’68, led the creation of the Mobile Legal Clinic — a project of Marquette Law School, Milwaukee Bar Association, and Milwaukee County — in honor of their friend and law partner Mike Gonring, Jour ’69, Law ’82.

Given all this service, it makes sense that Julie likes this quote from Winston Churchill (often repeated by the Green Bay Packers’ Bart Starr): “You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.”

Fun Fact: Julie would like to have dinner with Jesus. “I agree with the grandson of a good friend who said, ‘I have so many questions for him.’”

Fun Fact: She treasures a funny memory from early in a property law class taught by Martin Greenberg. Discussing the unusual “land lease” arrangements in Hawaii, he asked student Jack Skagerberg, “Have you ever been to Hawaii?” Jack replied, “No, Professor Greenberg, but I have been to West Allis to the delight of the other poor law students.”

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