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 2000 / Active

Paul Lundsten

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Paul Lundsten is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lundsten authored 147 published opinions for the court (2001–2019), plus 5 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: United Cooperative v. Frontier FS Cooperative (224 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. 165 of these were attributed to Lundsten 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 Cooperative v. Frontier FS Cooperative†	2007 WI App 197	224
2003	Kernz v. J. L. French Corp.†	2003 WI App 140	66
2003	State v. Colstad†	2003 WI App 25	58
2011	Townsend v. Massey†	338 Wis. 2d 114	53
2001	State v. Koller†	2001 WI App 253	48
2001	State v. Leitner†	2001 WI App 172	35
2005	In RE MARRIAGE OF DERR v. Derr†	2005 WI App 63	28
2001	Nugent v. Slaght†	2001 WI App 282	24
2007	Coady v. Cross Country Bank, Inc.†	2007 WI App 26	22
2009	State v. Pickens†	2010 WI App 5	20
2002	State v. Jones†	2002 WI App 196	20
2004	Abbas v. Palmersheim· Concurrence†	2004 WI App 126	18
2004	In RE MARRIAGE OF STEINER v. Steiner†	2004 WI App 169	17
2004	State v. Leutenegger†	2004 WI App 127	17
2002	La Crosse County Department of Human Services v. Tara P.†	2002 WI App 84	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 165 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 Lundsten on?: Paul Lundsten is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

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26 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).