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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin / Joined 1996 / Active

Patricia S. Curley

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Patricia S. Curley is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, serving since 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 1996 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Marquette University
Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Curley authored 228 published opinions for the court (1996–2016), plus 14 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Industrial Risk Insurers & Quad Graphics, Inc. v. American Engineering Testing, Inc. (209 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. 244 of these were attributed to Curley 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
2009	Industrial Risk Insurers & Quad Graphics, Inc. v. American Engineering Testing, Inc.†	2009 WI App 62	209
2007	Roy v. St. Lukes Medical Center†	2007 WI App 218	74
2009	State v. Berggren†	2009 WI App 82	56
2000	Guzman v. St. Francis Hospital, Inc.· Concurrence†	2001 WI App 21	41
2003	State v. Arredondo· Concurrence†	2004 WI App 7	40
2006	Estate of Hegarty v. Beauchaine†	2006 WI App 248	36
2007	State v. Dukes†	2007 WI App 175	32
2001	Estate of Hegarty Ex Rel. Hegarty v. Beauchaine†	2001 WI App 300	31
2009	State v. Phillips†	2009 WI App 179	30
2007	Tang v. C.A.R.S. Protection Plus, Inc.†	2007 WI App 134	28
1998	Goldstein v. Janusz Chiropractic Clinics, S.C.†	582 N.W.2d 78	28
1998	State v. Gruen†	582 N.W.2d 728	28
2003	Tri City National Bank v. Federal Insurance†	2004 WI App 12	27
2006	Peterson v. Cornerstone Property Development, LLC†	2006 WI App 132	26
2002	State v. Hall†	2002 WI App 108	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 245 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 is Patricia S. Curley on?: Patricia S. Curley is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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30 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).