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 1990 / Served to 2011

Daniel P. Anderson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Daniel P. Anderson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–2011 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 407 published opinions for the court (1990–2011), plus 9 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Grube v. Daun (106 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. 425 of these were attributed to Anderson 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
1992	Grube v. Daun†	173 Wis. 2d 30	106
2003	State v. Swinson†	2003 WI App 45	81
2004	Koepsell's Olde Popcorn Wagons, Inc. v. Koepsell's Festival Popcorn Wagons, Ltd.†	2004 WI App 129	68
1994	State v. Johnson· Concurrence†	516 N.W.2d 463	63
1998	Jacobson v. American Tool Cos., Inc.†	588 N.W.2d 67	58
1997	State v. Kiekhefer†	569 N.W.2d 316	54
1995	State v. Giebel†	541 N.W.2d 815	48
1993	State v. Ledger· Dissent†	499 N.W.2d 198	48
1991	State Ex Rel. Dressler v. Circuit Court for Racine County†	472 N.W.2d 532	48
2003	Walworth County v. THERESE B.†	2003 WI App 223	46
1993	State v. Maday†	507 N.W.2d 365	45
1998	State v. Adams†	584 N.W.2d 695	44
1990	In RE MARRIAGE OF HUBERT v. Hubert†	465 N.W.2d 252	42
1991	State v. Krieger†	471 N.W.2d 599	41
2004	State v. Stenzel†	2004 WI App 181	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 426 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 Daniel P. Anderson on?: Daniel P. Anderson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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21 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).