Wisconsin Code § 978.01

Number of district attorneys; election; term
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(1) There shall be 71 district attorneys elected for full terms at
the general election held in 2008 and quadrennially thereafter.
The regular term of office for each district attorney is 4 years,
commencing on the first Monday of January next succeeding his
or her election. Each county is a prosecutorial unit and shall elect
a district attorney, except that Shawano and Menominee counties
form one 2-county prosecutorial unit and shall elect a single district attorney by the combined electorate of the 2 counties.
(2) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), each district attorney
serves on a full-time basis.
(b) A district attorney serves on a part-time basis if his or her
prosecutorial unit consists of Buffalo, Florence, or Pepin county.

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