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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1993 / Served to 1998

Janine P. Geske

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Janine P. Geske was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 1993–1998 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Beloit College
Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Geske authored 57 published opinions for the court (1993–1998), plus 10 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Escalona-Naranjo (361 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. 41 of these were attributed to Geske 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
1994	State v. Escalona-Naranjo	517 N.W.2d 157	361
1995	State v. Post	541 N.W.2d 115	203
1997	State v. Setagord†	565 N.W.2d 506	154
1997	State v. Smith†	558 N.W.2d 379	115
1994	City of Edgerton v. General Casualty Co.	517 N.W.2d 463	86
1998	State v. Sample†	573 N.W.2d 187	83
1996	State v. Cummings· Dissent†	546 N.W.2d 406	82
1994	In Interest of Angel Lace M.· Concurrence†	516 N.W.2d 678	77
1997	Doe v. Archdiocese of Milwaukee†	565 N.W.2d 94	76
1998	Tomczak v. Bailey· Concurrence†	578 N.W.2d 166	70
1996	Kimps v. Hill	546 N.W.2d 151	68
1998	State v. Kieffer†	577 N.W.2d 352	66
1998	State v. Anderson· Dissent†	580 N.W.2d 329	63
1996	State v. Harris	557 N.W.2d 245	59
1996	State v. Williams	544 N.W.2d 406	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 78 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 Janine P. Geske on?: Janine P. Geske was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).