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 1997 / Served to 2015

Michael W. Hoover

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Michael W. Hoover was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 1997–2015 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoover authored 74 published opinions for the court (1997–2015), plus 3 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Richards v. Land Star Group, Inc. (26 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. 84 of these were attributed to Hoover 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
1999	Richards v. Land Star Group, Inc.· Concurrence†	593 N.W.2d 103	26
2012	State v. Schmidt†	344 Wis. 2d 336	18
2012	Apple Hill Farms Development, LLP v. Price†	342 Wis. 2d 162	16
2000	State v. Herrmann· Concurrence†	2000 WI App 38	16
2011	State v. Davis†	333 Wis. 2d 490	14
1997	State v. Knox†	570 N.W.2d 599	14
2011	Murr v. St. Croix County Board of Adjustment†	332 Wis. 2d 172	12
2008	Trailwood Ventures, LLC v. Village of Kronenwetter†	2009 WI App 18	12
2004	Bellile v. American Family Mutual Insurance· Concurrence†	2004 WI App 72	12
1997	Forest County v. Goode· Dissent†	572 N.W.2d 131	12
2010	State v. Huggett†	2010 WI App 69	11
2000	State v. Peters· Concurrence†	2000 WI App 154	11
1997	Boatright v. Spiewak†	570 N.W.2d 897	11
2010	State v. Peebles†	330 Wis. 2d 243	10
1997	State v. Grzelak†	573 N.W.2d 538	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 85 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 Michael W. Hoover on?: Michael W. Hoover 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).