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 1999 / Served to 2012

Gregory A. Peterson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Gregory A. Peterson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Peterson authored 61 published opinions for the court (2000–2012), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State v. Goodson (70 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. 61 of these were attributed to Peterson 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
2009	State v. Goodson†	2009 WI App 107	70
2001	State v. Howard· Dissent†	2001 WI App 137	43
2008	Oneida County Department of Social Services v. Therese S.†	314 Wis. 2d 493	30
2004	Noonan v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance†	2004 WI App 154	23
2007	State v. Rice†	743 N.W.2d 517	21
2012	American Family Mutual Insurance v. Outagamie County†	341 Wis. 2d 413	11
2008	Wilson v. Tuxen†	2008 WI App 94	11
2000	State v. Peters†	2000 WI App 154	11
2011	Kubichek v. Kotecki†	332 Wis. 2d 522	10
2007	State v. Torkelson†	2007 WI App 272	10
2007	In Re Custody of Kalbes†	2007 WI App 136	10
2006	State v. Richard J. D.†	297 Wis. 2d 20	10
2010	State v. Campbell†	331 Wis. 2d 91	9
2007	Anderson v. Quinn†	2007 WI App 260	9
2004	Gohde v. MSI Insurance†	2004 WI App 69	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 62 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 Gregory A. Peterson on?: Gregory A. Peterson 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).