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 P. Foley

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

John P. Foley 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	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Foley authored 65 published opinions for the court (1978–1984), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Haseltine (157 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. 64 of these were attributed to Foley 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
1984	State v. Haseltine†	352 N.W.2d 673	157
1981	Carlson Heating, Inc. v. Onchuck	311 N.W.2d 673	43
1982	Arnold v. Shawano County Agricultural Society†	317 N.W.2d 161	24
1984	State v. Verkuylen†	352 N.W.2d 668	18
1983	Nelson v. Union National Bank†	330 N.W.2d 225	15
1982	Snouffer v. Williams†	316 N.W.2d 141	15
1981	Schiller v. State, Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations	309 N.W.2d 5	15
1979	Brotzman v. Brotzman· Dissent†	283 N.W.2d 600	14
1981	State Ex Rel. Cox v. State, Department of Health & Social Services†	314 N.W.2d 148	13
1981	State v. Smith	309 N.W.2d 7	13
1984	Manitowoc Co. v. City of Sturgeon Bay	362 N.W.2d 432	12
1983	Evrard v. Jacobson†	342 N.W.2d 788	11
1983	Helmbrecht v. St. Paul Insurance†	343 N.W.2d 132	11
1982	Holy Name School of the Congregation of the Holy Name of Jesus of Kimberly v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations· Concurrence†	326 N.W.2d 121	11
1981	Baumgarten v. Bubolz	311 N.W.2d 230	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 75 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 P. Foley on?: John P. Foley 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).