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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1962

Grover L. Broadfoot

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Grover L. Broadfoot was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1892–1962
Tenure: 1948–1962 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Mount Mary University
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Broadfoot authored 457 published opinions for the court (1948–1962), plus 23 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Kojis v. Doctors Hospital (97 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. 116 of these were attributed to Broadfoot 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
1961	Kojis v. Doctors Hospital	12 Wis. 2d 367	97
1953	Severson v. Milwaukee Automobile Insurance†	265 Wis. 488	59
1956	Smith v. City of Brookfield· Dissent†	272 Wis. 1	41
1954	Galewski v. Noe†	266 Wis. 7	37
1955	Sommerfeld v. Board of Canvassers	269 Wis. 299	35
1960	Reistad v. Manz	11 Wis. 2d 155	32
1958	Green County v. City of Monroe	3 Wis. 2d 196	32
1952	Jefferson County v. Timmel	261 Wis. 39	32
1957	Fullerton Lumber Co. v. Torborg· Dissent†	274 Wis. 478	31
1949	Heimerl v. Ozaukee County· Dissent	40 N.W.2d 564	31
1959	Ermis v. Federal Windows Manufacturing Co.	7 Wis. 2d 549	29
1957	Schubert v. Midwest Broadcasting Co.	1 Wis. 2d 497	28
1960	State v. Allied Chemical & Dye Corp†	9 Wis. 2d 290	25
1953	Connell v. Luck	264 Wis. 282	25
1954	Mead v. Ringling	266 Wis. 523	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 484 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 Grover L. Broadfoot on?: Grover L. Broadfoot was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).