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 2011 / Served to 2014

Mark A. Mangerson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Mark A. Mangerson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 2011–2014 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mangerson authored 11 published opinions for the court (2012–2014). Most cited: State v. Verhagen (11 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. 11 of these were attributed to Mangerson 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	State v. Verhagen†	346 Wis. 2d 196	11
2012	Credit Acceptance Corp. v. Chao Kong†	344 Wis. 2d 259	9
2012	Koscielak v. Stockbridge-Munsee Community†	340 Wis. 2d 409	8
2014	MS Real Estate Holdings, LLC v. Donald P. Fox Family Trust†	356 Wis. 2d 307	6
2014	State v. Richard†	353 Wis. 2d 219	6
2012	Ansul, Inc. v. Employers Insurance†	345 Wis. 2d 373	5
2013	State v. Betters†	349 Wis. 2d 428	3
2014	Fouts v. Breezy Point Condominium Ass'n†	355 Wis. 2d 487	2
2013	Northernaire Resort & Spa, LLC v. Northernaire Condominium Ass'n†	351 Wis. 2d 156	2
2012	Nowell v. City of Wausau†	344 Wis. 2d 269	2
2012	Estate of Hammersley v. Wisconsin County Mutual Insurance†	340 Wis. 2d 557	0

Showing the 11 most-cited of 11 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 Mark A. Mangerson on?: Mark A. Mangerson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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3 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).