How do judges of the Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 2007 / Active

Annette K. Ziegler

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Annette K. Ziegler is a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1964 · age 62
Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ziegler authored 98 published opinions for the court (2007–2019), plus 28 dissents and 62 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ginger M. Breitzman (197 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. 183 of these were attributed to Ziegler 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
2017	State v. Ginger M. Breitzman†	378 Wis. 2d 431	197
2010	Maryland Arms Ltd. Partnership v. Connell· Concurrence†	326 Wis. 2d 300	160
2010	State v. Carter†	2010 WI 40	150
2018	Tetra Tech EC, Inc. v. Wisconsin Department of Revenue· Concurrence†	914 N.W.2d 21	145
2013	State v. Avery†	345 Wis. 2d 407	124
2010	State v. Robinson	2010 WI 80	114
2014	State v. Michael R. Tullberg†	359 Wis. 2d 421	110
2010	Town Bank v. City Real Estate Development, LLC†	330 Wis. 2d 340	102
2013	Outagamie County v. Melanie L.· Dissent†	349 Wis. 2d 148	98
2008	State v. Plude· Concurrence†	2008 WI 58	96
2010	State v. Smith†	2010 WI 16	95
2008	State v. Jorgensen†	2008 WI 60	95
2015	State v. Dean M. Blatterman· Concurrence†	362 Wis. 2d 138	94
2013	State v. Gerald D. Taylor†	347 Wis. 2d 30	91
2009	Noffke Ex Rel. Swenson v. Bakke†	2009 WI 10	84

Showing the 15 most-cited of 188 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 is Annette K. Ziegler on?: Annette K. Ziegler is a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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19 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).