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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1916 / Served to 1950

Marvin Bristol Rosenberry

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Marvin Bristol Rosenberry was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1916. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1868–1958
Tenure: 1916–1950 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1916	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Eastern Michigan University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rosenberry authored 1,320 published opinions for the court (1916–1949), plus 37 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Wait v. Pierce (155 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. 980 of these were attributed to Rosenberry 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
1926	Wait v. Pierce†	191 Wis. 202	155
1930	Osborne v. Montgomery	203 Wis. 223	149
1928	State ex rel. Wisconsin Inspection Bureau v. Whitman†	196 Wis. 472	102
1939	Wisconsin Telephone Co. v. Public Service Commission	287 N.W. 593	86
1943	In Re Constitutionality of Chapter 315, Laws of 1943	12 N.W.2d 699	79
1936	Van Gilder v. City of Madison†	222 Wis. 58	74
1917	Cappon v. O'Day†	165 Wis. 486	70
1941	Martin v. Smith	1 N.W.2d 163	69
1919	Anderson v. Miller Scrap Iron Co.†	169 Wis. 106	68
1922	State ex rel. Carnation Milk Products Co. v. Emery· Concurrence†	178 Wis. 147	65
1932	Marsh Wood Products Co. v. Babcock & Wilcox Co.· Dissent†	207 Wis. 209	64
1944	Patterson v. Jensen	17 N.W.2d 423	59
1934	Pollack v. State†	215 Wis. 200	54
1932	John F. Jelke Co. v. Beck†	208 Wis. 650	54
1930	State ex rel. La Follette v. Kohlee†	200 Wis. 518	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,371 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 Marvin Bristol Rosenberry on?: Marvin Bristol Rosenberry was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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34 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).