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 1981

Robert C. Cannon

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Robert C. Cannon was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1981 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Cannon authored 13 published opinions for the court (1978–1981). Most cited: Selchert v. Selchert (27 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. 12 of these were attributed to Cannon 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
1979	Selchert v. Selchert†	280 N.W.2d 293	27
1979	State v. Sirisun†	279 N.W.2d 484	17
1979	State v. Dreske†	276 N.W.2d 324	12
1978	State v. Prober†	275 N.W.2d 123	11
1980	Bialk v. City of Oak Creek†	297 N.W.2d 43	9
1978	Christianson v. Lease Associates, Inc.†	273 N.W.2d 776	4
1978	Hill v. State†	283 N.W.2d 585	3
1978	Crawford v. Shepherd†	272 N.W.2d 401	3
1981	Bence v. City of Milwaukee†	309 N.W.2d 883	2
1980	Ferris v. FIRST NAT. BANK & TRUST	292 N.W.2d 357	1
1979	State v. Princess Cinema of Milwaukee, Inc.†	90 Wis. 2d 543	1
1979	State ex rel. Lewis v. Department of Health & Social Services†	89 Wis. 2d 220	1
1979	State ex rel. Kelley v. Posner†	91 Wis. 2d 301	0

Showing the 13 most-cited of 13 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 Robert C. Cannon on?: Robert C. Cannon was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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3 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).