Gregg C. Hagopian
City of Milwaukee
Gregg Hagopian graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School (Law Review, Order of the Coif). After law school, he practiced at Foley & Lardner, concentrating in real estate and corporate matters. In 1994, he moved to the public sector, to the Milwaukee City Attorney's Office. He received the Normal Gill award for individual excellence in local government from the Public Policy Forum for development of an efficient property-tax-collection alternative to foreclosure (in personam), for his work regarding detection and prevention of illegal property flipping and mortgage fraud, and for creating Wis. Stat. 75.106 - a tool that allows government to get tax-delinquent, brownfield property into the hands of those who will remediate and improve. He received innovation awards from the City of Milwaukee, and awards from the International Association of Assessing Officers and the Wisconsin Association of Assessing Officers for service and for his published articles and reports. Gregg completed executive education courses at the Harvard Kennedy School (2012, 2013) and the Community Progress Leadership Institute at the Harvard Law School (2014). Gregg helped the City of Milwaukee develop a number of programs to move City-owned, property-tax-foreclosed parcels back into productive reuse. He worked on local, state, and federal efforts to combat zombie foreclosures. Gregg's work produced a number of Wisconsin State Law changes, including Wis. Stat. 75.106 (the brownfield redevelopment tool), mandatory recording of sheriff deeds (2015 Wisconsin Act 60), internet sheriff sales (2017 Wisconsin Act 208), and minimum eligibility requirements for 3rd parties to be able to bid at mortgage foreclosure sheriff sales (2017 Wisconsin Act 339). Gregg was a 2017 finalist for an Ian Axford Fublright New Zealand Fellowship in Public Policy. In the great cookie debate between “chocolate chip” and “oatmeal raisin,” Gregg picks “oatmeal raisin.”
(01/19)
