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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin / Joined 2012 / Active

Joanne F. Kloppenburg

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Joanne F. Kloppenburg is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kloppenburg authored 41 published opinions for the court (2012–2019). Most cited: Bank of N.Y. Mellon v. Klomsten (37 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 Kloppenburg 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
2018	Bank of N.Y. Mellon v. Klomsten†	911 N.W.2d 364	37
2013	State v. Maddix†	348 Wis. 2d 179	13
2013	Juneau County v. Associated Bank, N.A.†	346 Wis. 2d 264	13
2012	Riley v. Extendicare Health Facilities, Inc.†	345 Wis. 2d 804	12
2017	Otterstatter v. City of Watertown†	378 Wis. 2d 697	7
2018	State ex rel. Markovic v. Litscher†	916 N.W.2d 202	6
2013	Fetherston v. Parks†	352 Wis. 2d 472	6
2017	City of Madison v. State Department of Health Services†	375 Wis. 2d 203	5
2019	State v. Kloss†	925 N.W.2d 563	4
2014	State v. Hershberger†	356 Wis. 2d 220	3
2014	State v. Armstrong†	354 Wis. 2d 111	3
2016	State v. Troka†	369 Wis. 2d 193	2
2015	State v. Crute†	360 Wis. 2d 429	2
2014	State v. Zdzieblowski†	359 Wis. 2d 102	2
2014	Wisconsin Professional Police Ass'n v. Wisconsin Counties Ass'n†	357 Wis. 2d 687	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 is Joanne F. Kloppenburg on?: Joanne F. Kloppenburg is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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14 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).