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 2014 / Active

Thomas M. Hruz

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

Thomas M. Hruz is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1973 · age 53
Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hruz authored 38 published opinions for the court (2015–2019), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Munger v. Seehafer (24 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 Hruz 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
2016	Munger v. Seehafer†	372 Wis. 2d 749	24
2016	State v. Schmidt†	370 Wis. 2d 139	14
2017	Little Chute Area School District v. Wisconsin Education Ass'n Council†	373 Wis. 2d 668	13
2017	Auto-Owners Insurance Co. v. City of Appleton†	378 Wis. 2d 155	7
2017	Wilmet v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.†	374 Wis. 2d 413	7
2017	State v. Carter†	373 Wis. 2d 722	7
2015	State v. Finley†	365 Wis. 2d 275	7
2019	Moran v. Wis. Dep't of Justice†	932 N.W.2d 430	5
2019	Smith v. Goshaw†	928 N.W.2d 619	5
2017	State v. Hager†	373 Wis. 2d 692	5
2016	Jones v. Baecker†	373 Wis. 2d 235	5
2018	Grigg v. Aarrowcast, Inc.†	909 N.W.2d 183	4
2017	State v. Anderson· Concurrence†	374 Wis. 2d 372	4
2019	Hull v. Glewwe†	931 N.W.2d 266	3
2019	State v. Kemper Ctr., Inc.†	924 N.W.2d 218	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 is Thomas M. Hruz on?: Thomas M. Hruz is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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12 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).