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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1950 / Served to 1956

Edward J. Gehl

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Edward J. Gehl was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1956
Tenure: 1950–1956 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gehl authored 226 published opinions for the court (1949–1956), plus 30 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Olson v. Milwaukee Automobile Insurance (62 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. 82 of these were attributed to Gehl 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
1954	Olson v. Milwaukee Automobile Insurance	266 Wis. 106	62
1955	Fullerton Lumber Co. v. Torborg· Dissent†	270 Wis. 133	54
1955	Kuhl Motor Co. v. Ford Motor Co.· Concurrence†	270 Wis. 488	53
1956	Vogt, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 695	270 Wis. 315	50
1953	State ex rel. Thomson v. Giessel†	265 Wis. 558	43
1955	Laughnan v. Griffiths· Dissent†	271 Wis. 247	41
1954	Ferry v. State	266 Wis. 508	41
1954	State Ex Rel. Thomson v. Giessel· Dissent†	267 Wis. 331	39
1953	Gant v. Industrial Commission· Dissent†	263 Wis. 64	38
1952	Quady v. Sickl	260 Wis. 348	38
1952	Cohan v. Associated Fur Farms, Inc.	261 Wis. 584	36
1955	Sommerfeld v. Board of Canvassers· Dissent†	269 Wis. 299	35
1953	Green Bay Drop Forge Co. v. Industrial Commission· Dissent†	265 Wis. 38	35
1955	Nickel v. Hardware Mutual Casualty Co.†	269 Wis. 647	34
1954	Statz v. Pohl	266 Wis. 23	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 260 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 Edward J. Gehl on?: Edward J. Gehl was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).