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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 2008 / Former Justice

Michael Gableman

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Michael Gableman was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1966 · age 60
Tenure: 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Ripon College
Hamline University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gableman authored 81 published opinions for the court (2008–2018), plus 7 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Tetra Tech EC, Inc. v. Wisconsin Department of Revenue (145 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. 101 of these were attributed to Gableman 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
2018	Tetra Tech EC, Inc. v. Wisconsin Department of Revenue· Concurrence†	914 N.W.2d 21	145
2010	State v. Dearborn†	327 Wis. 2d 252	138
2010	Schill v. Wisconsin Rapids School District· Concurrence†	2010 WI 86	116
2012	State v. Smith†	342 Wis. 2d 710	106
2015	State v. Joel M. Hurley†	361 Wis. 2d 529	92
2017	Braylon Seifert v. Kay M. Balink, M.D.· Concurrence†	372 Wis. 2d 525	81
2016	Winnebago County v. Christopher S.†	366 Wis. 2d 1	79
2016	State v. Richard J. Sulla†	369 Wis. 2d 225	76
2010	State v. Harris†	326 Wis. 2d 685	74
2014	State v. James R. Hunt†	360 Wis. 2d 576	71
2014	Madison Teachers, Inc. v. Scott Walker†	358 Wis. 2d 1	68
2015	State v. Michael R. Luedtke†	362 Wis. 2d 1	66
2013	Bostco LLC v. Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District· Concurrence†	350 Wis. 2d 554	65
2012	State v. Martin†	343 Wis. 2d 278	64
2015	State v. Danny Robert Alexander· Concurrence†	360 Wis. 2d 292	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 103 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 Michael Gableman on?: Michael Gableman was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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18 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).