2014. The Government Accountability Board was abolished by legislation signed by Governor Walker in 2015. During his career, Judge Froehlich served as president of the Wisconsin Trial Judges Association and was a delegate to the National Conference of State Trial Judges. Judge Froehlich was named "Judge of the Year" in 1999 by the Bench Bar committee of the State Bar of Wisconsin. In 2013, the state bar honored him with a Lifetime Jurist Achievement Award, where he was praised by his former legislative aide, Justice David Prosser, Jr. The American Judges Association created the "Harold Froehlich Award for Judicial Courage" in 2013, to "recognize the highest level of judicial courage in the service of justice." Toilet paper panic Froehlich represented a district in which the paper industry is a major employer. Prompted by concern from the industry, on December 11, 1973, Froehlich issued a press release declaring, "The U.S. may face a shortage of toilet paper within a few months," and alluded to rationing as a possible solution. The release made it into major newspapers and to Johnny Carson. On December 19, Carson told his audience of tens of millions in his Tonight Show monologue that there was a shortage of toilet paper. Primed by recent shortages of other kinds of paper along with gasoline and meat, consumers went out the next day and hoarded toilet paper, emptying store shelves. The run on toilet paper continued for three weeks, until consumers saw that stores were being restocked and that there was therefore no shortage. The incident was the subject of a short film released in early 2020 by documentary filmmaker Brian Gersten, The Great Toilet Paper Scare. Electoral history Wisconsin Assembly (1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970) U.S. House of Representatives (1972, 1974) | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| Republican Primary, September 12, 1972 | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 7, 1972 | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 5, 1974 Wisconsin Circuit Court (1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, 2006) | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, April 6, 1982 | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, April 5, 1988 References External links |- 1932 births Living people Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly Speakers of the Wisconsin State Assembly Wisconsin state court judges American Lutherans Politicians from Appleton, Wisconsin Military personnel from Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Wisconsin Law School alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of