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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1958 / Served to 1974

E. Harold Hallows

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

E. Harold Hallows was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1974
Tenure: 1958–1974 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hallows authored 636 published opinions for the court (1958–1974), plus 80 dissents and 34 concurrences. Most cited: McCleary v. State (495 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. 180 of these were attributed to Hallows 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
1971	McCleary v. State· Concurrence†	182 N.W.2d 512	495
1967	Dippel v. Sciano· Concurrence†	37 Wis. 2d 443	300
1962	Bielski v. Schulze	16 Wis. 2d 1	268
1967	Whitty v. State	34 Wis. 2d 278	266
1963	Pierringer v. Hoger	21 Wis. 2d 182	249
1966	Lock v. State	31 Wis. 2d 110	188
1972	Just v. Marinette County	201 N.W.2d 761	154
1967	State v. Reppin	35 Wis. 2d 377	139
1971	State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Cady· Concurrence†	185 N.W.2d 306	135
1973	Wold v. State	204 N.W.2d 482	122
1967	Huebner v. State	33 Wis. 2d 505	115
1967	Grieb v. Citizens Casualty Co.	33 Wis. 2d 552	106
1970	Hayes v. States	175 N.W.2d 625	104
1965	State v. Stevens	26 Wis. 2d 451	102
1965	State Ex Rel. Sonneborn v. Sylvester	26 Wis. 2d 43	100

Showing the 15 most-cited of 750 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 E. Harold Hallows on?: E. Harold Hallows was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).