Bio: Schmidt, Neal E. – Named to State Post (1973)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Schmidt

----Source: Tribune/Phonograph (Abbotsford, Clark Co., Wis.) 25 Jan 1973

Attorney Neal E. Schmidt, formerly of Colby, has been appointed Inheritance Tax Counsel for the State Judiciary, Inheritance and Gift Tax Bureau.

The son of Mrs. Edna Schmidt, Colby, and the late Arthur Schmidt, his new duties will include the formulation and development of legal programs to assure consistent interpretation of inheritance tax statues; the preparation of legal research and documents in connection with inheritance and gift tax matters; county court appearances; assisting the attorney general in Supreme Court action related to inheritance tax laws, and liaison with other divisions of the department, other agencies, public administrators and representatives of estates.

Schmidt is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a Law degree. He then became a research attorney with the State Legislative Council, and joined the Wisconsin department of Revenue in 1967, where he has worked since as an attorney in the former Bureau of Inheritance Tax.

He, his wife, Alice, also an attorney, and their daughter, Tristen, live at 6014 Hammersley Road in Madison.