Derek Mosley briefed National Press Foundation Statehouse Reporting Fellows in October 2023: ‘You Didn’t Stand a Chance’: Unconscious Bias Embedded Since Birth 

Derek Mosley graduated from Marquette University Law School in 1995. After graduation, he served as an Assistant District Attorney for Milwaukee County from 1995-2002. As an Assistant District Attorney, he represented the State of Wisconsin in over 1,000 criminal prosecutions. In 2002, Mosley was appointed Municipal Court Judge in Milwaukee. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest African-American to be appointed judge in the State of Wisconsin. For ten years, Mosley served as the Chief Judge of the Milwaukee Municipal Court. In 2023, Mosley became the Director of the Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education at Marquette University Law School.

He has been a lecturer at both Marquette University Law School as well as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Judge Mosley routinely speaks both nationally and internationally about Unconscious Bias and Black History.