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 1994 / Served to 2012

Margaret J. Vergeront

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Margaret J. Vergeront was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1994–2012 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vergeront authored 311 published opinions for the court (1994–2012), plus 5 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Kailin v. Armstrong (87 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. 321 of these were attributed to Vergeront 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
2002	Kailin v. Armstrong†	2002 WI App 70	87
2002	State v. Peppertree Resort Villas, Inc.†	2002 WI App 207	74
2000	In RE MARRIAGE OF RANDALL v. Randall†	2000 WI App 98	70
1995	In Interest of Christopher D.†	530 N.W.2d 34	69
2010	PALISADES COLLECTION LLC v. Kalal†	2010 WI App 38	65
1995	Atlantic Mutual Insurance v. Badger Medical Supply Co.†	528 N.W.2d 486	54
2002	MacH v. Allison†	2003 WI App 11	51
2003	State v. Kutz†	2003 WI App 205	50
1999	Tanner v. Shoupe†	596 N.W.2d 805	49
1996	State v. Gaulrapp†	558 N.W.2d 696	47
1999	Garfoot v. Fireman's Fund Insurance†	599 N.W.2d 411	45
1997	State v. Young†	569 N.W.2d 84	43
2003	Teff v. Unity Health Plans Ins. Corp.†	2003 WI App 115	40
2005	State v. Urdahl†	2005 WI App 191	37
1995	Ritt v. Dental Care Associates, S.C.†	543 N.W.2d 852	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 322 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 Margaret J. Vergeront on?: Margaret J. Vergeront was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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18 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).