Bradley, in a forum Wednesday at the Milwaukee Bar Association, apologized for the third time in as many days for her college opinions, saying her views are different today thanks to a “mosaic of life experiences.”

There are other ties from Marquette connecting Bradley and Walker decades ago.

The future state Supreme Court justice served as a senator on Marquette’s student government alongside Jim Villa, one of Walker’s longest and most trusted advisers. Villa and Bradley were on the student senate together at a heated meeting in 1991 where Bradley slammed down her nameplate and threatened to resign during a discussion of whether the university should add a multicultural course requirement, according to an article in the Marquette Tribune, the student newspaper.

Villa, who graduated from Marquette in 1994, went on to serve as Walker’s chief of staff for five years when Walker was Milwaukee County executive and as an informal adviser to Walker’s ill-fated presidential run last year. Villa, who is also a close personal friend of Walker’s, currently works as a top vice president at the University of Wisconsin.

Scot Ross, director of One Wisconsin Now, the liberal group that brought to light Bradley’s college writings, said he thinks Villa must have told Walker about Bradley’s political past.