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 1978 / Served to 2010

Charles P. Dykman

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Charles P. Dykman was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–2010 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dykman authored 393 published opinions for the court (1978–2010), plus 88 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Edmunds (87 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. 508 of these were attributed to Dykman 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	State v. Edmunds†	2008 WI App 33	87
1995	In Interest of Christopher D.· Dissent†	530 N.W.2d 34	69
2002	State v. Grindemann· Concurrence†	2002 WI App 106	68
1994	Brownelli v. McCaughtry†	514 N.W.2d 48	64
1991	D'Huyvetter v. A.O. Smith Harvestore Products†	475 N.W.2d 587	62
1992	State Ex Rel. Frederick v. McCaughtry†	173 Wis. 2d 222	51
1993	State v. Clark†	507 N.W.2d 172	47
1984	Midwest Developers v. Goma Corp.†	360 N.W.2d 554	46
1997	State v. Young· Dissent†	569 N.W.2d 84	43
2003	State v. Schaefer†	2003 WI App 164	40
1998	Lessor v. Wangelin†	586 N.W.2d 1	40
1991	Hillman v. Columbia County†	474 N.W.2d 913	40
2002	Hicks v. Nunnery· Dissent†	2002 WI App 87	38
1995	Westphal v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.†	531 N.W.2d 386	38
1980	DeWitt v. DeWitt· Concurrence†	296 N.W.2d 761	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 512 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 Charles P. Dykman on?: Charles P. Dykman was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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32 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).