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 2010 / Active

Gary E. Sherman

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Gary E. Sherman is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sherman authored 37 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Reese (30 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. 38 of these were attributed to Sherman 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
2014	State v. Reese†	353 Wis. 2d 266	30
2012	Marnholtz v. Church Mutual Insurance†	341 Wis. 2d 478	13
2010	State v. Ultsch†	331 Wis. 2d 242	13
2015	State v. Chagnon†	364 Wis. 2d 719	10
2015	Coyne v. Walker†	361 Wis. 2d 225	7
2011	Johnson v. Mt. Morris Mutual Insurance†	338 Wis. 2d 327	6
2017	Easterling v. Labor & Industry Review Commission†	374 Wis. 2d 312	5
2015	Marks v. Houston Casualty Co.†	363 Wis. 2d 505	5
2015	State v. State of Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development†	361 Wis. 2d 196	5
2016	Teague v. Van Hollen· Concurrence†	367 Wis. 2d 547	4
2010	Olson v. Farrar†	330 Wis. 2d 611	3
2018	State v. Lopez†	922 N.W.2d 855	2
2018	Scace v. Schulte (In re A.J.S.)†	913 N.W.2d 189	2
2013	Stoker v. Milwaukee County†	352 Wis. 2d 125	2
2013	State v. Williams†	350 Wis. 2d 311	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 38 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 is Gary E. Sherman on?: Gary E. Sherman is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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16 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).