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 1980 / Served to 1991

Burton A. Scott

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Burton A. Scott was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1980–1991 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Scott authored 445 published opinions for the court (1980–1991), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Holt (141 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. 94 of these were attributed to Scott 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
1985	State v. Holt	382 N.W.2d 679	141
1987	Ford Motor Co. v. Lyons	405 N.W.2d 354	111
1989	State v. Truax	444 N.W.2d 432	95
1985	In Re Estate of Balkus v. Security First National Bank of Sheboygan Trust Department	381 N.W.2d 593	90
1987	State v. Michels	414 N.W.2d 311	71
1984	Germanotta v. National Indemnity Co.	349 N.W.2d 733	66
1988	State v. Fawcett	426 N.W.2d 91	65
1985	State v. Grawien	367 N.W.2d 816	63
1987	State v. Anderson	417 N.W.2d 411	62
1983	State v. Shillcutt	341 N.W.2d 716	56
1989	Fond Du Lac County v. Town of Rosendale	440 N.W.2d 818	55
1988	Marriage of Schinner v. Schinner	420 N.W.2d 381	55
1984	Marriage of Arneson v. Arneson	355 N.W.2d 16	55
1988	In RE MARRIAGE OF POPP v. Popp	432 N.W.2d 600	53
1984	Maxey v. Redevelopment Authority of Racine	353 N.W.2d 812	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 447 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 Burton A. Scott on?: Burton A. Scott was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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11 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).