E. Michael McCann

E. Michael McCann served as the elected District Attorney of Milwaukee County in Wisconsin for 38 years (1968-2006). He retired from public service in January 2007, at which time he joined Marquette University Law School as a Boden Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law.

One of the more prominent cases that occurred during Mr. McCann's career as District Attorney was the prosecution of Milwaukee serial slayer Jeffrey Dahmer. Mr. McCann also acted to guard worker safety by prosecuting employers for recklessly causing job site deaths of employees in "State of Wisconsin v. S.A. Healy Co". In "State v. Chem Bio Corp"., he secured homicide convictions against a laboratory for failing to detect incipient cancers which caused the death of two women.

McCann is well familiar with Jesuit education at the secondary (Marquette University High School), undergraduate (University of Detroit), and professional school (Georgetown University) levels. He also earned a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard University and was awarded honorary degrees from Marquette University and Marian College in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.