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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1974 / Served to 1996

Ronald B. Day

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Ronald B. Day was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–2008
Tenure: 1974–1996 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Mount Mary University
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Day authored 431 published opinions for the court (1974–1996), plus 28 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Ball v. District No. 4, Area Board (363 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. 68 of these were attributed to Day 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
1984	Ball v. District No. 4, Area Board	345 N.W.2d 389	363
1980	Wirth v. Ehly	287 N.W.2d 140	338
1980	Wangen v. Ford Motor Co.· Concurrence†	294 N.W.2d 437	282
1983	Brockmeyer v. Dun & Bradstreet· Concurrence†	335 N.W.2d 834	279
1978	State Ex Rel. Strykowski v. Wilkie· Dissent†	261 N.W.2d 434	211
1990	State v. Pulizzano	456 N.W.2d 325	196
1981	Kollasch v. Adamany	313 N.W.2d 47	167
1977	Garrity v. Rural Mutual Insurance	253 N.W.2d 512	146
1989	State v. McManus	447 N.W.2d 654	145
1977	Cords v. Anderson	259 N.W.2d 672	125
1979	Cogswell v. Robertshaw Controls Co.	274 N.W.2d 647	122
1981	Eberhardy v. Circuit Court for Wood County· Dissent†	307 N.W.2d 881	119
1988	State v. Sorenson	421 N.W.2d 77	118
1987	State v. Friedrich	398 N.W.2d 763	118
1989	Minuteman, Inc. v. Alexander	434 N.W.2d 773	114

Showing the 15 most-cited of 479 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 Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Ronald B. Day on?: Ronald B. Day was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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22 years on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).