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 1978 / Served to 1981

Harold M. Bode

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Harold M. Bode was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1981 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bode authored 9 published opinions for the court (1978–1980), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State v. Booth (28 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. 10 of these were attributed to Bode 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
1980	State v. Booth†	295 N.W.2d 194	28
1980	State v. Pruitt†	289 N.W.2d 343	26
1979	Rohl v. State· Dissent†	279 N.W.2d 731	10
1978	State Ex Rel. Gibson v. Department of Health & Social Services†	272 N.W.2d 395	7
1980	Trinity Memorial Hospital of Cudahy, Inc. v. County of Milwaukee†	295 N.W.2d 814	2
1980	State v. Dean†	295 N.W.2d 23	2
1980	Kempf v. Boehrig†	290 N.W.2d 720	2
1978	Kenosha County Department of Social Services v. Kenosha National Bank†	85 Wis. 2d 420	2
1980	Ferris v. First National Bank & Trust Co. of Racine†	96 Wis. 2d 476	1
1980	Schwaab v. Town of Summit†	98 Wis. 2d 511	0

Showing the 10 most-cited of 10 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 Harold M. Bode on?: Harold M. Bode was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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3 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).