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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 2003 / Former Justice

Patience D. Roggensack

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Patience D. Roggensack was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Drake University
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Roggensack authored 158 published opinions for the court (2003–2019), plus 51 dissents and 65 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Allen (462 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. 259 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
2004	State v. Allen†	2004 WI 106	462
2005	Kaloti Enterprises, Inc. v. Kellogg Sales Co.†	2005 WI 111	174
2014	Data Key Partners v. Permira Advisors LLC†	356 Wis. 2d 665	158
2006	State v. Tiepelman· Dissent†	2006 WI 66	134
2005	State v. Dubose· Dissent†	2005 WI 126	130
2006	Hoida, Inc. v. M & I MIDSTATE BANK†	2006 WI 69	121
2009	Phelps v. Physicians Insurance†	2009 WI 74	120
2008	Richards v. Badger Mutual Insurance†	2008 WI 52	117
2010	Schill v. Wisconsin Rapids School District· Dissent†	2010 WI 86	116
2009	State v. Kramer†	2009 WI 14	112
2009	County of Dane v. Labor & Industry Review Commission†	2009 WI 9	105
2006	Burbank Grease Services, LLC v. Sokolowski†	2006 WI 103	103
2011	Tammy W-G. v. Jacob T.†	333 Wis. 2d 273	99
2008	State v. Arias†	2008 WI 84	98
2005	Ferdon Ex Rel. Petrucelli v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund· Dissent†	2005 WI 125	98

Showing the 15 most-cited of 274 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 Patience D. Roggensack on?: Patience D. Roggensack was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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23 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).