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 1985 / Served to 1997

Daniel L. Larocque

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Daniel L. Larocque was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1997 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Larocque authored 215 published opinions for the court (1985–1997), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Hall v. Turtle Lake Lions Club (45 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. 219 of these were attributed to Larocque 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
1988	Hall v. Turtle Lake Lions Club†	431 N.W.2d 696	45
1994	Nischke v. Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust†	522 N.W.2d 542	37
1997	State v. Zanelli†	569 N.W.2d 301	36
1994	Goossen v. Estate of Standaert†	525 N.W.2d 314	36
1988	Marriage of Pergolski v. Pergolski†	420 N.W.2d 414	35
1989	Parker v. Parker†	447 N.W.2d 64	33
1997	Haselow v. Gauthier†	569 N.W.2d 97	30
1987	State v. Hirsch†	410 N.W.2d 638	27
1993	Kuhn v. Allstate Insurance†	510 N.W.2d 826	25
1990	State v. Lange· Dissent†	463 N.W.2d 390	25
1991	Krause v. Massachusetts Bay Ins. Co.†	468 N.W.2d 755	23
1992	Pattermann v. Pattermann†	173 Wis. 2d 143	21
1991	Nelson Ex Rel. Yost v. Schreiner†	469 N.W.2d 214	21
1994	Skrupky v. Elbert†	526 N.W.2d 264	20
1994	State v. Edgeberg†	524 N.W.2d 911	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 219 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 L. Larocque on?: Daniel L. Larocque 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).