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 2015

Richard S. Brown

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Richard S. Brown was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1978–2015 · 37 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 715 published opinions for the court (1978–2015), plus 19 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Schlieper v. State Department of Natural Resources (121 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. 656 of these were attributed to Brown 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
1994	Schlieper v. State Department of Natural Resources†	525 N.W.2d 99	121
1995	State v. Rogers†	539 N.W.2d 897	118
1982	State v. Padilla†	329 N.W.2d 263	97
1984	State v. Denny†	357 N.W.2d 12	87
1994	State v. McMahon†	519 N.W.2d 621	69
2006	State v. Gudgeon†	2006 WI App 143	63
1994	NBZ, INC. v. Pilarski†	520 N.W.2d 93	62
2001	State v. Kimbrough†	2001 WI App 138	60
2000	State Ex Rel. Olson v. Litscher†	2000 WI App 61	50
2014	State v. Giese†	356 Wis. 2d 796	47
1999	Kalchthaler v. Keller Construction Co.†	591 N.W.2d 169	47
1990	Wilson v. Waukesha County· Concurrence†	460 N.W.2d 830	47
1983	A.G. Ex Rel. Waite v. Travelers Insurance†	331 N.W.2d 643	46
2008	Welytok v. Ziolkowski	2008 WI App 67	44
1994	Awve v. Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Inc.†	512 N.W.2d 216	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 758 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 Richard S. Brown on?: Richard S. Brown was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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37 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).