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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1995 / Former Justice

Ann Walsh Bradley

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Ann Walsh Bradley was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Daniel Webster College
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bradley authored 197 published opinions for the court (1995–2014), plus 134 dissents and 90 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County (1,735 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 404 of these were attributed to Bradley by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2004	State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County· Concurrence†	2004 WI 58	1,735
1996	State v. Bentley	548 N.W.2d 50	371
2004	State v. Gallion†	2004 WI 42	288
2011	State v. Balliette· Dissent†	336 Wis. 2d 358	263
1999	State v. Erickson†	596 N.W.2d 749	216
2014	State v. Andres Romero-Georgana· Dissent†	360 Wis. 2d 522	198
2003	Bruno v. Milwaukee County· Concurrence†	2003 WI 28	167
1998	State v. Phillips· Dissent†	577 N.W.2d 794	161
2010	Maryland Arms Ltd. Partnership v. Connell†	326 Wis. 2d 300	160
1995	State v. Carpenter	541 N.W.2d 105	155
2010	State v. Carter· Concurrence†	2010 WI 40	150
2004	Wenke Ex Rel. Laufenberg v. Gehl Co.· Dissent†	2004 WI 103	149
2011	State v. Harbor†	333 Wis. 2d 53	144
2007	State v. Post†	2007 WI 60	130
2000	State v. Hughes· Dissent†	2000 WI 24	127

Showing the 15 most-cited of 421 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Ann Walsh Bradley on?: Ann Walsh Bradley was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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31 years on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).