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 1996 / Served to 2003

Patience Drake Roggensack

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Patience Drake Roggensack was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1996–2003 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Drake University

Judicial Record

In our data, Roggensack authored 121 published opinions for the court (1996–2003), plus 13 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Truttschel v. Martin (99 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. 136 of these were attributed to Roggensack 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
1997	Truttschel v. Martin†	560 N.W.2d 315	99
1997	Smith v. Dodgeville Mutual Insurance†	568 N.W.2d 31	58
1997	State v. Keith†	573 N.W.2d 888	42
1999	In RE MARRIAGE OF BENN v. Benn†	602 N.W.2d 65	40
1998	Cemetery Services, Inc. v. Wisconsin Department of Regulation & Licensing†	586 N.W.2d 191	37
1998	Ramsden v. Farm Credit Services of North Central Wisconsin ACA†	590 N.W.2d 1	33
2001	State v. Tulley†	2001 WI App 236	32
2001	Jorgensen v. Water Works, Inc.†	2001 WI App 135	31
2001	Reget v. Paige†	2001 WI App 73	30
1997	State v. Ruesch†	571 N.W.2d 898	30
1999	State v. Wanta†	592 N.W.2d 645	29
2003	Westphal v. Farmers Insurance Exchange†	2003 WI App 170	27
2000	State v. Joseph E. G.†	2001 WI App 29	25
2002	State Ex Rel. Curtis v. Litscher†	2002 WI App 172	24
1999	State v. Edmunds†	598 N.W.2d 290	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 137 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 Patience Drake Roggensack on?: Patience Drake Roggensack was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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7 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).