How do judges of the Wisconsin Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1954 / Served to 1958

Ronald J. Steinle

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Ronald J. Steinle was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1966
Tenure: 1954–1958 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Steinle authored 146 published opinions for the court (1954–1958), plus 13 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Thomson v. Giessel (78 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. 44 of these were attributed to Steinle 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
1955	State Ex Rel. Thomson v. Giessel	271 Wis. 15	78
1954	David Jeffrey Co. v. City of Milwaukee	267 Wis. 559	54
1955	Worachek v. Stephenson Town School District· Dissent†	270 Wis. 116	46
1955	Town of Madison v. City of Madison	269 Wis. 609	46
1957	Pugnier v. Ramharter	275 Wis. 70	43
1955	Maslow Cooperage Corp. v. Weeks Pickle Co.	270 Wis. 179	43
1955	Potter v. City of Kenosha	268 Wis. 361	42
1954	Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette v. Village of Whitefish Bay	267 Wis. 609	42
1957	State Ex Rel. City of West Allis v. Dieringer	275 Wis. 208	37
1955	Gordon v. Gordon	270 Wis. 332	34
1955	Estate of Eannelli	269 Wis. 192	34
1956	State v. Stortecky	273 Wis. 362	33
1956	Prisuda v. General Casualty Co. of America	272 Wis. 41	32
1957	Fullerton Lumber Co. v. Torborg†	274 Wis. 478	31
1956	Walley v. Patake	271 Wis. 530	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 161 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 J. Steinle on?: Ronald J. Steinle was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).