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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1956 / Served to 1959

Emmert L. Wingert

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Emmert L. Wingert was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1971
Tenure: 1956–1959 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Beloit College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wingert authored 91 published opinions for the court (1956–1959), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Colla v. Mandella (105 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. 19 of these were attributed to Wingert 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
1957	Colla v. Mandella	1 Wis. 2d 594	105
1957	Maier v. Racine County	1 Wis. 2d 384	58
1958	Caldwell v. Caldwell	5 Wis. 2d 146	47
1958	Wisconsin Power & Light Co. v. Columbia County	3 Wis. 2d 1	44
1958	Kincannon v. National Indemnity Co.	5 Wis. 2d 231	43
1958	McCourt v. Algiers	4 Wis. 2d 607	35
1956	Village of Brown Deer v. City of Milwaukee	274 Wis. 50	32
1957	Pattenge v. Wagner Iron Works	275 Wis. 495	31
1957	Town of Blooming Grove v. City of Madison	275 Wis. 328	30
1958	Heims v. Hanke	5 Wis. 2d 465	29
1958	Miller v. Kujak	4 Wis. 2d 80	27
1957	Uhrman v. Cutler-Hammer, Inc.	2 Wis. 2d 71	27
1958	Laffey v. City of Milwaukee	4 Wis. 2d 111	25
1957	Klump v. Cybulski	274 Wis. 604	24
1957	Braun v. Jewett	1 Wis. 2d 531	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 97 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 Emmert L. Wingert on?: Emmert L. Wingert was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).