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 2010 / Active

Paul F. Reilly

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Paul F. Reilly is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reilly authored 90 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 18 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Hansen v. Texas Roadhouse, Inc. (18 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. 117 of these were attributed to Reilly 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
2012	Hansen v. Texas Roadhouse, Inc.· Dissent†	345 Wis. 2d 669	18
2016	State v. Floyd· Concurrence†	371 Wis. 2d 404	16
2014	John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Inc. v. Erpenbach· Concurrence†	354 Wis. 2d 61	14
2013	City of South Milwaukee v. Kester†	347 Wis. 2d 334	14
2012	State v. Pocian†	341 Wis. 2d 380	14
2014	State v. Weissinger· Dissent†	355 Wis. 2d 546	13
2016	Operton v. Labor & Industry Review Commission†	369 Wis. 2d 166	12
2015	State v. Smith†	366 Wis. 2d 613	12
2015	State v. Sobonya†	365 Wis. 2d 559	12
2017	State v. Langlois· Dissent†	377 Wis. 2d 302	11
2016	Oddsen v. Henry· Dissent†	368 Wis. 2d 318	11
2014	State v. Dumstrey· Dissent†	359 Wis. 2d 624	10
2012	State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Hague Quality Water†	345 Wis. 2d 741	10
2017	Kruckenberg v. Krukar†	378 Wis. 2d 314	9
2013	State v. Johnson†	352 Wis. 2d 98	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 117 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 F. Reilly on?: Paul F. Reilly is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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16 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).