How do judges of the Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1998 / Former Justice

David T. Prosser Jr.

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

David T. Prosser Jr. was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

DePauw University
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Prosser authored 187 published opinions for the court (1999–2017), plus 84 dissents and 93 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Thiel (302 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. 353 of these were attributed to Prosser 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
2003	State v. Thiel†	2003 WI 111	302
2011	State v. Balliette†	336 Wis. 2d 358	263
2009	State v. Ndina· Concurrence†	2009 WI 21	263
2000	Seider v. O'CONNELL†	2000 WI 76	260
2000	State v. Huebner· Concurrence†	2000 WI 59	228
2001	State v. Eason· Dissent†	2001 WI 98	208
2001	Martindale v. Ripp†	2001 WI 113	207
2003	Folkman v. Quamme†	2003 WI 116	201
2014	State v. Andres Romero-Georgana†	360 Wis. 2d 522	198
2006	State v. Brown†	2006 WI 100	197
2004	Steven v. v. Kelley H.· Dissent†	2004 WI 47	195
2003	Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Employers Insurance of Wausau†	2003 WI 108	177
2010	Maryland Arms Ltd. Partnership v. Connell· Dissent†	326 Wis. 2d 300	160
2000	Morden v. Continental AG†	2000 WI 51	159
2000	Aicher Ex Rel. LaBarge v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund†	2000 WI 98	151

Showing the 15 most-cited of 364 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 David T. Prosser Jr. on?: David T. Prosser Jr. was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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28 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).