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 1978 / Served to 1985

Martha Bablitch

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Martha Bablitch was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1985 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Lawrence University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bablitch authored 17 published opinions for the court (1978–1984), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: DeWitt v. DeWitt (38 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. 22 of these were attributed to Bablitch 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
1980	DeWitt v. DeWitt†	296 N.W.2d 761	38
1984	State v. Curbello-Rodriguez· Concurrence†	351 N.W.2d 758	36
1984	In RE MARRIAGE OF SCHWANTES v. Schwantes	360 N.W.2d 69	28
1980	State ex rel. Teaching Assistants Ass'n v. University of Wisconsin-Madison†	96 Wis. 2d 492	26
1981	State v. Campbell†	306 N.W.2d 272	16
1980	State v. Staples· Dissent†	299 N.W.2d 270	15
1979	American Motors Corp. v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations†	286 N.W.2d 847	15
1980	State Law Enforcement Standards Board v. Village of Lyndon Station· Dissent†	295 N.W.2d 818	13
1981	Sewerage Commission of the City of Milwaukee v. State Department of Natural Resources· Concurrence†	311 N.W.2d 677	12
1983	State v. Schmit†	340 N.W.2d 752	10
1978	Sentell v. Higby†	273 N.W.2d 780	9
1984	Neylan v. Vorwald†	360 N.W.2d 537	8
1984	State of Louisiana Ex Rel. Eaton v. Leis· Dissent†	354 N.W.2d 209	8
1979	Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, Inc. v. Department of Natural Resources· Dissent†	288 N.W.2d 168	8
1984	Sauk County Child Support Agency v. Drier†	351 N.W.2d 745	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 24 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 Martha Bablitch on?: Martha Bablitch was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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7 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).