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 2003 / Active

Paul B. Higginbotham

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Paul B. Higginbotham is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Higginbotham authored 75 published opinions for the court (2003–2016), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: United Rentals, Inc. v. City of Madison (47 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. 76 of these were attributed to Higginbotham 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
2007	United Rentals, Inc. v. City of Madison†	2007 WI App 131	47
2009	State v. Kaczmarski†	2009 WI App 117	39
2005	Arents v. ANR Pipeline Co.†	2005 WI App 61	27
2003	State v. Matson†	2003 WI App 253	27
2009	State v. Miller†	2009 WI App 111	23
2004	Abbas v. Palmersheim†	2004 WI App 126	18
2009	Xerox Corp. v. Wisconsin Department of Revenue†	2009 WI App 113	17
2005	Suchomel v. University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics†	2005 WI App 234	17
2008	Berkos v. Shipwreck Bay Condominium Ass'n†	313 Wis. 2d 609	14
2006	State v. Kramer†	2006 WI App 133	14
2015	Seifert ex rel. Scoptur v. Balink†	364 Wis. 2d 692	13
2006	Hoekstra v. Guardian Pipeline, LLC†	2006 WI App 245	13
2009	Parker v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund†	2009 WI App 42	12
2008	Young v. West Bend Mutual Insurance†	2008 WI App 147	12
2006	Kroeplin v. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources†	2006 WI App 227	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 76 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 Paul B. Higginbotham on?: Paul B. Higginbotham is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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23 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).