Joanna Kramer

## ADA Joanna Kramer

* **Name:**Joanna Kristine Kramer
* **Position:**Chief Assistant District Attorney, Region 3 of the Red River Disputed Military Zone
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:**Shanley High School, class of '43, Bachelors in Political Science from Saint Cloud State College, Juris Doctorate from University of Chicago.
* **DOB:**4/21/2025, Fargo  ND, USA (now Region 3, RRDMZ)
* **DOD:**11/23/2075, 50, Fargo, Region 3 RRDMZ
* **Family:**Ian Kramer (father, *deceased*), Clarice [Berg] Kramer (mother, Fargo), Paul Berg (cousin, Fargo), Helen Ness (cousin-in-law, Fargo), Eric Strand (ex-husband)

Joanna Kramer was always earmarked for greatness. The scion of several influential families in local business and politics, she was raised around Senators, Judges and real estate tycoons and learned the inner workings of power with her A, B, C's.

Determined from an early age to not just accumulate personal power but to find a way to use it for the better, Joanna worked hard and graduated with a Juris Doctorate, passing the North Dakota and Minnesota bar exams in 2050. 2050 was also the year that she married her collage sweetheart, Eric Strand, who was already working as a Fargo weatherman for TransForum InfoMedia. She had always intended to return to her hometown and when she returned to marry, she took a position in the prosecutor's office for the State's Attorney in Cass County and she and Eric were a visible power couple through the 2050's and early 2060's.

In the early '60's Joanna did a term as County Commissioner, and conflicts began to erupt between her own political ambitions as a Technocratic  politician and the increasingly radical stances her husband was taking in private. However, these rifts were kept to the private sphere and when the couple split up over them in 2065 it came as a surprise to all but their closest friends.

Not that Joanna didn't have enough on her plate. She was serving as legal council to the UCAAF in setting up the UCAS  side of the newly-formed Red River Disputed Military Zone, and worked personally with the new Regional Attorney Trevor Lange and their Oceti Sakowin counterpart Speaker Annette Web Weaver to establish the court system for the border region.

Over the last thirteen years as Chief Assistant District Attorney to Lange, there has been a notable shift in her politics, from the staunchly pro-corporate stances of the early 2060's to a full-throated defense of the rapidly-shrinking civil government, occasionally even working on initiatives with members of the NPL (although no "goat" herself, she still registers as a Technocrat) to try and limit corporate power in Region 3. Perhaps it was the influence of her ex-husband, with whom she was still friendly, perhaps her family's long career in elected politics stifling her ambition, or maybe just butting heads one too many times with her rival Helen Ness (married to one of her cousins) but she had become one of the more moderate voices in favor of the public sphere and public law.

Her speech in early August of 2075 at Eric's funeral was notable for its harsh, almost abrasive tone and she was actively involved in assisting the Strands in pursuing Eric's private files, first through the courts and then through a hired detective, as Joanna was an old friend and associate of Caution Agency head Ivan Johnson. Even after the death of that detective, it appears Joanna pursued the files on her own and rumor is was on her way to a showdown over them with Helen Ness when a rogue shadowrunner  suddenly ended her life with a bullet in the lobby of Kilbourne Urban Design in the Block.

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