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 1982 / Served to 2008

Ted E. Wedemeyer Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Ted E. Wedemeyer Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–2008 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wedemeyer authored 261 published opinions for the court (1982–2008), plus 18 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: A.O. Smith Corp. v. Allstate Insurance (301 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. 284 of these were attributed to Wedemeyer 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
1998	A.O. Smith Corp. v. Allstate Insurance†	588 N.W.2d 285	301
1983	Noll v. Dimiceli's, Inc.†	340 N.W.2d 575	142
1987	Hammer v. Hammer†	418 N.W.2d 23	91
1984	L.L. v. Medical Protective Co.†	362 N.W.2d 174	55
1996	State v. Eckert†	553 N.W.2d 539	53
2003	State v. Smith†	2003 WI App 234	52
1985	Gordon v. Milwaukee County†	370 N.W.2d 803	47
1984	Schweiner v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.†	354 N.W.2d 767	46
1987	Paape v. Northern Assurance Co. of America†	416 N.W.2d 665	42
1985	Brown v. Thomas†	379 N.W.2d 868	41
1983	Landess v. Schmidt†	340 N.W.2d 213	38
1999	Helland v. Kurtis A. Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital†	601 N.W.2d 318	37
2000	Friends of Kenwood v. Green†	2000 WI App 217	34
2005	State v. Davis†	2005 WI App 98	32
1987	State v. Flakes†	410 N.W.2d 614	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 286 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 Ted E. Wedemeyer Jr. on?: Ted E. Wedemeyer Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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26 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).