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 2013 / Active

Lisa K. Stark

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Lisa K. Stark is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1957 · age 69
Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stark authored 66 published opinions for the court (2013–2019). Most cited: Barrows v. American Family Insurance (194 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. 66 of these were attributed to Stark 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
2013	Barrows v. American Family Insurance†	352 Wis. 2d 436	194
2013	State v. Jacobsen†	352 Wis. 2d 409	26
2019	Brown Cnty. Human Servs. v. B. P. (In re A. P.)†	927 N.W.2d 560	19
2014	Northbrook Wisconsin, LLC v. City of Niagara†	352 Wis. 2d 657	19
2016	Koenig v. Pierce County Department of Human Services†	367 Wis. 2d 633	17
2016	State v. Queever†	372 Wis. 2d 388	12
2018	Newcap, Inc. v. Dep't of Health Servs.†	916 N.W.2d 173	11
2018	Ehr v. W. Bend Mut. Ins. Co. (In re Estate of Rivera)†	908 N.W.2d 486	10
2016	New Richmond News v. City of New Richmond†	370 Wis. 2d 75	10
2015	State v. Herrmann†	366 Wis. 2d 312	10
2014	West Capitol, Inc. v. Village of Sister Bay†	354 Wis. 2d 130	10
2013	Dow Family, LLC v. PHH Mortgage Corp.†	350 Wis. 2d 411	10
2016	Sands v. Menard†	372 Wis. 2d 126	8
2014	Singler v. Zurich American Insurance†	357 Wis. 2d 604	8
2018	Laatsch v. Derzon (In re Estate of Derzon)†	908 N.W.2d 471	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 Lisa K. Stark on?: Lisa K. Stark is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

13 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).