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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1967 / Served to 1980

Connor Hansen

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Connor Hansen was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1987
Tenure: 1967–1980 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hansen authored 91 published opinions for the court (1967–1980), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Ollerman v. O'Rourke Co., Inc. (206 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. 35 of these were attributed to Hansen 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
1980	Ollerman v. O'Rourke Co., Inc.· Concurrence†	288 N.W.2d 95	206
1980	Scarpaci v. Milwaukee County· Concurrence†	292 N.W.2d 816	134
1979	Bucyrus-Erie Co. v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations	280 N.W.2d 142	124
1980	Elias v. State	286 N.W.2d 559	106
1980	Muller v. State	289 N.W.2d 570	84
1979	Jones v. Jenkins	277 N.W.2d 815	81
1979	Kozlowski v. John E. Smith's Sons Co.· Dissent†	275 N.W.2d 915	72
1979	Prince v. Bryant	275 N.W.2d 676	71
1980	State v. Burkman	292 N.W.2d 641	67
1979	Coryell v. Conn	276 N.W.2d 723	65
1979	Meurer v. ITT General Controls	280 N.W.2d 156	62
1979	Lewandowski v. Continental Casualty Co.	276 N.W.2d 284	58
1979	Wisconsin Bingo Supply & Equipment Co. v. Wisconsin Bingo Control Board	276 N.W.2d 716	54
1979	Olsen Ex Rel. Reilly v. Copeland	280 N.W.2d 178	52
1980	Clark Ex Rel. Nash v. Leisure Vehicles, Inc.	292 N.W.2d 630	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 96 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 Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Connor Hansen on?: Connor Hansen was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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