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 1983

Clair H. Voss

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Clair H. Voss was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1983 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Marquette University
Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Voss authored 60 published opinions for the court (1978–1983). Most cited: Stafford Trucking, Inc. v. State, Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations (52 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. 27 of these were attributed to Voss 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
1981	Stafford Trucking, Inc. v. State, Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations†	306 N.W.2d 79	52
1981	Bachand v. Connecticut General Life Insurance	305 N.W.2d 149	35
1979	Interest of L. L. v. Circuit Court of Washington County	280 N.W.2d 343	34
1981	Oliver v. Travelers Insurance Co.†	309 N.W.2d 383	30
1980	Independent Milk Producers Co-Op v. Stoffel	298 N.W.2d 128	25
1982	State v. Temby†	322 N.W.2d 522	24
1980	Town of Vernon v. Waukesha County	299 N.W.2d 593	24
1980	Dragoo v. Dragoo	298 N.W.2d 231	20
1979	Jackson v. State	284 N.W.2d 685	19
1983	Dielectric Corp. v. Labor & Industry Review Co.†	330 N.W.2d 606	18
1981	Wamser v. Bamberger	305 N.W.2d 158	18
1980	Fred Rueping Leather Co. v. City of Fond Du Lac	298 N.W.2d 227	17
1982	Sullivan Bros. v. State Bank of Union Grove†	321 N.W.2d 545	16
1982	State v. Smith†	316 N.W.2d 124	15
1981	State v. Nye	302 N.W.2d 83	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 60 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 Clair H. Voss on?: Clair H. Voss was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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5 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).