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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin / Joined 2007 / Served to 2010

Burnie Bridge

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Burnie Bridge was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin (13 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2007–2010 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bridge authored 17 published opinions for the court (2007–2010). Most cited: Cholvin v. Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services (31 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. 17 of these were attributed to Bridge 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
2008	Cholvin v. Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services†	313 Wis. 2d 749	31
2009	Yates v. Holt-Smith†	2009 WI App 79	14
2008	Portage Daily Register v. Columbia County Sheriff's Department†	2008 WI App 30	12
2008	Ehlinger v. Hauser†	2008 WI App 123	11
2007	Morrison v. Rankin†	2007 WI App 186	10
2009	VanHIERDEN v. SWELSTAD†	2010 WI App 16	8
2009	In Re Mental Commitment of Stevenson Lj†	2009 WI App 84	8
2007	State Ex Rel. Gehl v. Connors†	2007 WI App 238	7
2009	State v. Lee†	2009 WI App 96	5
2008	State v. Baron†	2008 WI App 90	5
2008	Preston v. Meriter Hospital, Inc.†	2008 WI App 25	5
2010	Propp v. Sauk County Board of Adjustment†	2010 WI App 25	3
2008	State v. Jones†	2008 WI App 154	3
2008	State v. McClaren†	2008 WI App 118	3
2009	State v. Conner†	2009 WI App 143	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 17 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 Court of Appeals of Wisconsin reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Burnie Bridge on?: Burnie Bridge was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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