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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1949 / Served to 1964

Timothy Brown

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Timothy Brown was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1977
Tenure: 1949–1964 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Mount Mary University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 477 published opinions for the court (1949–1983), plus 22 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Goller v. White (276 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. 116 of these were attributed to Brown 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
1963	Goller v. White· Concurrence†	20 Wis. 2d 402	276
1959	State Ex Rel. Ball v. McPhee· Dissent†	6 Wis. 2d 190	69
1963	McCauley v. Tropic of Cancer· Dissent†	20 Wis. 2d 134	52
1961	State ex rel. Reynolds v. Dinger†	14 Wis. 2d 193	51
1961	Fulton Foundation v. Department of Taxation· Dissent†	13 Wis. 2d 1	45
1954	Boutin v. Cardinal Theatre Co.	267 Wis. 199	43
1956	State v. Kroening	274 Wis. 266	41
1956	Kanzenbach v. S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.	273 Wis. 621	39
1952	State Ex Rel. Thomson v. Giessel	262 Wis. 51	39
1962	Copland v. Department of Taxation· Dissent†	16 Wis. 2d 543	38
1963	California Wine Asso. v. Wisconsin Liquor Co.	20 Wis. 2d 110	35
1959	Borden Co. v. McDowell	8 Wis. 2d 246	35
1952	Umnus v. Wisconsin Public Service Corp.	260 Wis. 433	35
1951	Sandstrom v. Estate of Clausen	258 Wis. 534	34
1957	Ross v. Ebert	275 Wis. 523	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 504 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 Timothy Brown on?: Timothy Brown was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).