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 1996

Robert W. Dean

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

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

Tenure: 1978–1996 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Dean authored 56 published opinions for the court (1978–1985), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Town of Seymour v. City of Eau Claire (34 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. 39 of these were attributed to Dean 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
1983	Town of Seymour v. City of Eau Claire†	332 N.W.2d 821	34
1979	Pierz v. Gorski	276 N.W.2d 352	27
1981	Reckner v. Reckner†	314 N.W.2d 159	25
1979	In Matter of Guardianship & Protective Placement of Shaw	275 N.W.2d 503	25
1978	Canadian Pacific Ltd. v. Omark-Prentice Hydraulics, Inc.†	272 N.W.2d 407	21
1985	McMahon v. Brown†	371 N.W.2d 414	20
1982	Central National Bank of Wausau v. Dustin†	321 N.W.2d 321	20
1982	Village of Sister Bay v. Hockers†	317 N.W.2d 505	20
1979	Mayer v. Mayer	283 N.W.2d 591	20
1982	In Interest of RB†	322 N.W.2d 502	18
1984	Gerdmann Ex Rel. Habush v. United States Fire Insurance Co.†	350 N.W.2d 730	17
1984	Miller v. Amundson†	345 N.W.2d 494	17
1984	Demerath v. Nestle Co., Inc.†	358 N.W.2d 541	14
1979	Roe v. Larson	287 N.W.2d 824	14
1979	Brotzman v. Brotzman	283 N.W.2d 600	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 58 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 W. Dean on?: Robert W. Dean was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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18 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).