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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1930 / Served to 1949

John D. Wickhem

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

John D. Wickhem was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1949
Tenure: 1930–1949 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1930	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Beloit College
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wickhem authored 680 published opinions for the court (1930–1949), plus 24 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Waube v. Warrington (105 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. 379 of these were attributed to Wickhem 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
1935	Waube v. Warrington†	216 Wis. 603	105
1931	Barragar v. Industrial Commission†	205 Wis. 550	80
1931	In re Constitutionality of Statute Empowering Supreme Court to Promulgate Rules Regulating Pleading, Practice, & Procedure in Judicial Proceedings†	204 Wis. 501	79
1933	Suring State Bank v. Giese†	210 Wis. 489	74
1932	Marsh Wood Products Co. v. Babcock & Wilcox Co.†	207 Wis. 209	64
1933	State v. Bohner†	210 Wis. 651	63
1938	Wisconsin Labor Relations Board v. Fred Rueping Leather Co.†	228 Wis. 473	56
1936	American Furniture Co. v. I. B.†	222 Wis. 338	52
1936	State ex rel. Finnegan v. Dammann†	220 Wis. 143	48
1931	E. L. Husting Co. v. Coca Cola Co.†	205 Wis. 356	46
1941	Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Worden-Allen Co.	297 N.W. 436	43
1934	Bent v. Jonet†	213 Wis. 635	42
1934	Petition of Breidenbach†	214 Wis. 54	38
1947	Reynolds v. Madison Bus Co.	26 N.W.2d 653	37
1933	Wisconsin Ice & Coal Co. v. Lueth†	213 Wis. 42	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 714 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 John D. Wickhem on?: John D. Wickhem was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 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).