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 1978 / Served to 1996

Paul C. Gartzke

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Paul C. Gartzke was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1996 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

University of Iowa
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gartzke authored 440 published opinions for the court (1978–1996), plus 25 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Charolais Breeding Ranches, Ltd. v. FPC Securities Corp. (333 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. 266 of these were attributed to Gartzke 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
1979	Charolais Breeding Ranches, Ltd. v. FPC Securities Corp.	279 N.W.2d 493	333
1981	In Matter of Estate of Bilsie	302 N.W.2d 508	83
1983	Segall v. Hurwitz†	114 Wis. 2d 471	81
1986	State Bank of La Crosse v. Elsen	383 N.W.2d 916	80
1982	State v. Hoffman	316 N.W.2d 143	76
1980	Yotvat v. Roth	290 N.W.2d 524	55
1979	Dykstra v. Arthur G. McKee & Co.	284 N.W.2d 692	55
1983	J.F. Ahern Co. v. Wisconsin State Building Commission†	336 N.W.2d 679	54
1980	Prahl v. Brosamle	295 N.W.2d 768	51
1985	Welter v. Singer	376 N.W.2d 84	48
1983	Wengerd v. Rinehart†	114 Wis. 2d 575	48
1981	State v. Drogsvold	311 N.W.2d 243	48
1980	State Ex Rel. Meeks v. Gagnon	289 N.W.2d 357	44
1986	State Bank of Hartland v. Arndt	385 N.W.2d 219	42
1980	State v. Olsen	299 N.W.2d 632	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 481 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 Paul C. Gartzke on?: Paul C. Gartzke was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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18 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).