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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1962 / Served to 1967

Myron L. Gordon

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Myron L. Gordon was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1962. He earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–2009
Tenure: 1962–1967 · 5 yrs
Education: Harvard

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Mount Mary University
Harvard University	LL.B.	1942

Judicial Record

In our data, Gordon authored 61 published opinions for the court (1962–1967), plus 26 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Holytz v. City of Milwaukee (395 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. 99 of these were attributed to Gordon 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
1962	Holytz v. City of Milwaukee†	17 Wis. 2d 26	395
1965	State v. Stevens· Dissent†	26 Wis. 2d 451	102
1966	State v. Shoffner· Dissent†	31 Wis. 2d 412	98
1964	Pulaski v. State· Concurrence†	23 Wis. 2d 138	77
1962	Holt v. State†	17 Wis. 2d 468	74
1965	Schilling v. Stockel†	26 Wis. 2d 525	64
1965	State v. Givens†	28 Wis. 2d 109	55
1967	State v. Alfonsi†	33 Wis. 2d 469	47
1966	Galloway v. State†	32 Wis. 2d 414	46
1964	Fehrman v. Smirl†	25 Wis. 2d 645	45
1962	Rudzinski v. Warner Theatres, Inc.· Concurrence†	16 Wis. 2d 241	42
1964	Wulf v. Rebbun· Dissent†	25 Wis. 2d 499	40
1963	Gilson v. Drees Bros.†	19 Wis. 2d 252	40
1965	Baker v. Northwestern National Casualty Co.†	26 Wis. 2d 306	38
1963	State v. Hoyt· Concurrence†	21 Wis. 2d 310	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 99 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 Myron L. Gordon on?: Myron L. Gordon was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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5 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).