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 1983 / Served to 2007

Neil Nettesheim

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Neil Nettesheim was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–2007 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Nettesheim authored 427 published opinions for the court (1984–2007), plus 10 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Pettit (1,286 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. 451 of these were attributed to Nettesheim 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
1992	State v. Pettit†	171 Wis. 2d 627	1,286
1995	M & I First National Bank v. Episcopal Homes Management, Inc.†	536 N.W.2d 175	128
1990	Borchardt v. Wilk†	456 N.W.2d 653	78
1994	State v. Johnson†	516 N.W.2d 463	63
1995	Vanstone v. Town of Delafield†	530 N.W.2d 16	54
1991	Zintek v. Perchik†	471 N.W.2d 522	51
1993	Scheunemann v. City of West Bend†	507 N.W.2d 163	50
1996	Jensen v. Milwaukee Mutual Insurance†	554 N.W.2d 232	48
1993	State v. Ledger†	499 N.W.2d 198	48
1991	Brandt v. Labor & Industry Review Commission†	466 N.W.2d 673	48
1990	Wilson v. Waukesha County†	460 N.W.2d 830	47
1990	Gonzalez v. Teskey†	465 N.W.2d 525	45
2007	Dickman v. Vollmer†	2007 WI App 141	44
1997	Atkinson v. Mentzel†	566 N.W.2d 158	44
1989	Duhame v. Duhame†	453 N.W.2d 149	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 454 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 Neil Nettesheim on?: Neil Nettesheim was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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24 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).