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 1988 / Served to 2014

Ralph Adam Fine

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Ralph Adam Fine was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–2014 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Tufts University

Judicial Record

In our data, Fine authored 351 published opinions for the court (1988–2014), plus 85 dissents and 64 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Blalock (334 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. 499 of these were attributed to Fine 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
1989	State v. Blalock†	442 N.W.2d 514	334
1994	State v. Flynn†	527 N.W.2d 343	105
1993	Fiumefreddo v. McLean†	496 N.W.2d 226	91
2013	Kirk v. Credit Acceptance Corp.· Dissent†	346 Wis. 2d 635	81
1993	Transportation Insurance Co. v. Hunzinger Construction Co.†	507 N.W.2d 136	79
2006	Brew City Redevelopment Group, LLC v. Ferchill Group†	2006 WI App 39	66
1990	Lievrouw v. Roth†	459 N.W.2d 850	58
1999	State v. Jackson†	600 N.W.2d 39	56
2002	Associates Financial Services Co. of Wisconsin v. Brown†	2002 WI App 300	50
1992	State v. Jenkins†	483 N.W.2d 262	47
1991	United States Fire Insurance v. Ace Baking Co.†	476 N.W.2d 280	47
2000	Guzman v. St. Francis Hospital, Inc.†	2001 WI App 21	41
2003	State v. Arredondo†	2004 WI App 7	40
2013	Chapman v. B.C. Ziegler & Co.†	351 Wis. 2d 123	39
1992	State v. Whitaker†	481 N.W.2d 649	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 500 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 Ralph Adam Fine on?: Ralph Adam Fine was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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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).