Margaret Hickey

Margaret W. Hickey practices in the areas of divorce, family law, and elder law including trusts for the disabled, title 19 and guardianship. She is a shareholder in the law firm of Becker, Hickey & Poster, S.C., Milwaukee, and received her B.A. from Marquette University (1982, summa cum laude), where she was Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School (1986, cum laude).

Margaret is a a Past President of the State Bar of Wisconsin (2022-3) and has served on the State Bar of Wisconsin Board of Governors (District 2, 2018 – 2021, 2005-2015, Chair 2006-07, Treasurer 2009-11.) Margaret served as Chair of the Family Law and Elder Law Section Boards of Directors and was a member of both Boards. She is a past President of the Milwaukee Bar Association (2004-05) and served on the Board of Directors from 1999-2005. Margaret also serves on the Board of the Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund (President 2021), and served on the Boards of the Legal Aid Society, and public radio station WUWM. Margaret lectures frequently on elder law and family law at local, state and national bar meetings and to community groups and other professionals.

Margaret is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Bar Association, the Waukesha and Ozaukee Bar Associations, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Association for Women Lawyers and she is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Wisconsin Law Foundation, and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (President for the Wisconsin Chapter, 2005-06.) She is named in the Best Lawyers in America for family and elder law and has been named as a “Super Lawyer” for many years, was named one of the top ten lawyers in the State of Wisconsin in 2025 and in 2012, as one of the top 25 women lawyers in the state and as a “Woman in the Law 2011.” She is also a diplomat of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers.