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 1996 / Served to 2007

David G. Deininger

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

David G. Deininger was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1996–2007 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

United States Naval Academy

Judicial Record

In our data, Deininger authored 182 published opinions for the court (1996–2007), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Grindemann (68 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. 191 of these were attributed to Deininger 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
2002	State v. Grindemann†	2002 WI App 106	68
1999	Hennig v. Ahearn†	601 N.W.2d 14	52
2002	Selzer v. Brunsell Brothers, Ltd.†	2002 WI App 232	46
2006	Bilda v. County of Milwaukee†	292 Wis. 2d 212	44
2002	Hicks v. Nunnery†	2002 WI App 87	38
2000	State v. Fosnow†	2001 WI App 2	32
2004	Piaskoski & Associates v. Ricciardi†	2004 WI App 152	29
2004	Finch v. Southside Lincoln-Mercury, Inc.†	2004 WI App 110	28
2003	State v. Snider†	2003 WI App 172	28
1999	State v. Tuescher†	595 N.W.2d 443	28
2006	State v. Schutte†	2006 WI App 135	27
1998	State v. Thompson†	585 N.W.2d 905	27
2002	Dairyland Greyhound Park, Inc. v. McCallum†	2002 WI App 259	26
2005	State v. Jeannie M. P.†	2005 WI App 183	25
2003	Evans v. Luebke†	2003 WI App 207	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 191 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 David G. Deininger on?: David G. Deininger was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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11 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).