How do judges of the Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1992 / Served to 2007

Jon P. Wilcox

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Jon P. Wilcox was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1992–2007 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Ripon College
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilcox authored 180 published opinions for the court (1992–2007), plus 48 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Gallion (288 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. 212 of these were attributed to Wilcox 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
2004	State v. Gallion· Concurrence†	2004 WI 42	288
2000	Seider v. O'CONNELL· Dissent†	2000 WI 76	260
2000	State v. Huebner†	2000 WI 59	228
2001	Martindale v. Ripp· Dissent†	2001 WI 113	207
2003	Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Employers Insurance of Wausau· Dissent†	2003 WI 108	177
1995	Northern States Power Co. v. Bugher	525 N.W.2d 723	176
1994	Bowen v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.· Concurrence†	517 N.W.2d 432	162
1997	State v. Klessig†	564 N.W.2d 716	149
2001	Evelyn C. R. v. Tykila S.†	2001 WI 110	146
2003	State v. Cole†	2003 WI 112	143
1995	Rockweit v. Senecal	541 N.W.2d 742	143
2005	State v. Knapp· Dissent†	2005 WI 127	138
2005	State v. Dubose· Dissent†	2005 WI 126	130
2000	State v. Davidson†	2000 WI 91	126
1993	Newhouse Ex Rel. Skow v. Citizens Security Mutual Insurance	501 N.W.2d 1	121

Showing the 15 most-cited of 266 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 Jon P. Wilcox on?: Jon P. Wilcox was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).