[2] Following his training, he was assigned to Naval Station Great Lakes, but, with World War II now over, Ensign Sundby was soon sent home and placed on inactive reserve.

[4] Throughout the years 1960 to 1986 he was an associate and partner in the Madison law firm now known as DeWitt LLP, though at the time rotated through several names.

[4] When a new seat was created in District IV of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, Sundby decided to run.

In what, at the time, was considered a stunning upset, he defeated veteran Dane County Judge P. Charles Jones in the April election.

He married his first wife, Beverly Hocking, of Janesville, Wisconsin, in October 1946, shortly after returning from Naval duty.