Annette E. Scherbert was elected as Milwaukee’s 11th District alderwoman in 1984. In
the early 1960s she was a grade school teacher at Walt Whitman Elementary School in
Milwaukee. During her time teaching, she had a student named Joe Dudzik who
eventually succeeded her as alderman in the 11th district. In 1994, she and other
common council members blocked a proposed Indian Council for the Elderly senior
housing project. This initiated a lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department, costing
the City of Milwaukee about $750,000 to settle. Scherbert retired from her position
in early in 2001 for health reasons and endorsed Dudzik as her successor. Scherbert
passed away in 2015.
