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 1992 / Served to 2004

Charles Benjamin Schudson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Charles Benjamin Schudson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–2004 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College

Judicial Record

In our data, Schudson authored 161 published opinions for the court (1992–2004), plus 29 dissents and 44 concurrences. Most cited: A.O. Smith Corp. v. Allstate Insurance (301 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. 234 of these were attributed to Schudson 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
1998	A.O. Smith Corp. v. Allstate Insurance· Concurrence†	588 N.W.2d 285	301
1994	State v. Flynn· Concurrence†	527 N.W.2d 343	105
2003	State v. Ziebart†	2003 WI App 258	79
1999	State v. Jackson· Concurrence†	600 N.W.2d 39	56
1996	State v. Eckert· Dissent†	553 N.W.2d 539	53
2000	Guzman v. St. Francis Hospital, Inc.· Dissent†	2001 WI App 21	41
1998	Coston v. Joseph P.†	586 N.W.2d 52	38
1999	Helland v. Kurtis A. Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital· Concurrence†	601 N.W.2d 318	37
1992	State v. Marhal· Concurrence†	493 N.W.2d 758	35
2001	State v. McAttee†	2001 WI App 262	34
1999	State v. Ballos†	602 N.W.2d 117	32
1993	State v. Johnson†	501 N.W.2d 876	31
1997	State v. Beiersdorf†	561 N.W.2d 749	30
1993	Old Tuckaway Associates Ltd. Partnership v. City of Greenfield· Concurrence†	509 N.W.2d 323	30
1992	State v. Woods†	173 Wis. 2d 129	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 234 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 Benjamin Schudson on?: Charles Benjamin Schudson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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12 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).