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 2007 / Served to 2011

Edward R. Brunner

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Edward R. Brunner was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2007–2011 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Marquette University
University of Akron Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Brunner authored 33 published opinions for the court (2007–2011), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hardy v. Hoefferle (80 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. 34 of these were attributed to Brunner 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
2007	Hardy v. Hoefferle†	2007 WI App 264	80
2009	Wisconsin Public Service Corp. v. Andrews†	2009 WI App 30	18
2010	Selmer Co. v. Rinn†	328 Wis. 2d 263	16
2008	State v. Sherman†	2008 WI App 57	13
2010	State v. Campbell· Concurrence†	331 Wis. 2d 91	9
2010	State v. Tomaszewski†	2010 WI App 51	9
2009	Brown County Sheriff's Department Non-Supervisory Labor Ass'n v. Brown County†	2009 WI App 75	6
2011	North Twin Builders, LLC v. Town of Phelps†	334 Wis. 2d 148	4
2011	Erdmann v. Progressive Northern Insurance†	332 Wis. 2d 147	4
2010	LaBeree v. Labor & Industry Review Commission†	330 Wis. 2d 101	4
2009	In Re Guardianship of Jennifer M.†	2010 WI App 8	4
2009	In Re Commitment of Kaminski†	2009 WI App 175	4
2008	Aldrich v. Labor and Industry Review Commission†	2008 WI App 63	4
2007	Schuett v. Hanson†	2007 WI App 226	4
2010	State v. Bergwin†	329 Wis. 2d 737	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 34 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 Edward R. Brunner on?: Edward R. Brunner was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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4 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).