Janet R. Carl, 63, died unexpectedly on Saturday, May 4, at Grant Regional Health Center in Lancaster.
Born on January 27, 1961, in Lancaster to Leonard and Marian (Franzen) Carl, she graduated from Fennimore High School in 1979 and then attended UW-Platteville, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and journalism.
During college, she served as a reporter and editor at The Exponent student newspaper, was an intern at the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, and freelanced for the Dubuque Telegraph Herald and the Milwaukee Journal. She also worked as a typesetter and proofreader for the Platteville Journal. During her junior year at UW-Platteville, she was selected for a special student internship at the Wisconsin State Journal.
She went on to earn a law degree from the University of Texas-Austin, and worked as an environmental attorney in Houston, Texas, St. Louis, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
