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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1951 / Served to 1968

George R. Currie

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

George R. Currie was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1983
Tenure: 1951–1968 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Currie authored 625 published opinions for the court (1951–1967), plus 92 dissents and 46 concurrences. Most cited: Holytz v. City of Milwaukee (395 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. 231 of these were attributed to Currie 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
1962	Holytz v. City of Milwaukee· Concurrence†	17 Wis. 2d 26	395
1967	Dippel v. Sciano· Concurrence†	37 Wis. 2d 443	300
1963	Goller v. White	20 Wis. 2d 402	276
1965	Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc.	26 Wis. 2d 683	176
1960	Powers v. Allstate Insurance	10 Wis. 2d 78	166
1952	Muench v. Public Service Commission†	261 Wis. 492	144
1965	State Ex Rel. Youmans v. Owens	28 Wis. 2d 672	140
1952	Pfeifer v. Standard Gateway Theater, Inc.	262 Wis. 229	129
1967	Bentzler v. Braun	34 Wis. 2d 362	117
1967	Huebner v. State· Dissent†	33 Wis. 2d 505	115
1957	Wells v. Dairyland Mutual Insurance	274 Wis. 505	115
1959	Haumschild v. Continental Casualty Co.†	7 Wis. 2d 130	94
1967	Moran v. Quality Aluminum Casting Co.	34 Wis. 2d 542	90
1962	State v. Esser· Concurrence†	16 Wis. 2d 567	85
1955	State Ex Rel. Saveland Park Holding Corp. v. Wieland	269 Wis. 262	79

Showing the 15 most-cited of 764 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 George R. Currie on?: George R. Currie was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).