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 1986 / Served to 1999

Gordon Myse

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Gordon Myse was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–1999 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Beloit College

Judicial Record

In our data, Myse authored 285 published opinions for the court (1986–1999), plus 10 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: K.A.G. Ex Rel. Carson v. Stanford (66 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. 301 of these were attributed to Myse 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
1988	K.A.G. Ex Rel. Carson v. Stanford†	434 N.W.2d 790	66
1996	Gerald O. v. Cindy R.†	551 N.W.2d 855	56
1994	State v. Babbitt†	525 N.W.2d 102	50
1994	State v. Raymond C.†	522 N.W.2d 243	47
1993	Coopman v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.†	508 N.W.2d 610	45
1989	Tony Spychalla Farms, Inc. v. Hopkins Agricultural Chemical Co.†	444 N.W.2d 743	42
1996	In MATTER OF MARRIAGE OF SELLERS v. Sellers†	549 N.W.2d 481	39
1986	Desotelle v. Continental Casualty Co.†	400 N.W.2d 524	39
1994	Nischke v. Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust· Dissent†	522 N.W.2d 542	37
1997	State v. Zanelli· Concurrence†	569 N.W.2d 301	36
1995	State v. Peters†	534 N.W.2d 867	33
1993	Hoglund v. Secura Insurance†	500 N.W.2d 354	33
1991	State v. Peters†	479 N.W.2d 198	33
1986	State v. Hurd†	400 N.W.2d 42	33
1994	State v. Fuerst†	512 N.W.2d 243	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 301 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 Gordon Myse on?: Gordon Myse was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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13 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).