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 1984

John A. Decker

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

John A. Decker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1984 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Decker authored 189 published opinions for the court (1978–1984), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Reiman Associates, Inc. v. R/A Advertising, Inc. (164 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. 46 of these were attributed to Decker 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
1981	Reiman Associates, Inc. v. R/A Advertising, Inc.	306 N.W.2d 292	164
1981	Holbrook v. Holbrook	309 N.W.2d 343	131
1979	Harrell v. State†	277 N.W.2d 462	107
1980	State v. Shaffer	292 N.W.2d 370	82
1978	Milenkovic v. State†	272 N.W.2d 320	67
1980	State v. Albright	298 N.W.2d 196	63
1980	County of Milwaukee v. Proegler	291 N.W.2d 608	60
1980	Johnson v. Misericordia Community Hospital	294 N.W.2d 501	43
1979	State v. Grady	286 N.W.2d 607	43
1978	Cranmore v. State	271 N.W.2d 402	40
1981	MacI v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	314 N.W.2d 914	37
1982	State Ex Rel. Lockman v. Gerhardstein	320 N.W.2d 27	36
1984	Englewood Community Apartments Ltd. Partnership v. Alexander Grant & Co.†	349 N.W.2d 716	34
1982	In Interest of IV	326 N.W.2d 127	34
1982	Waukesha County v. Johnson	320 N.W.2d 1	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 190 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 John A. Decker on?: John A. Decker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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6 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).