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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Wisconsin Supreme Court / Joined 1977 / Served to 1992

William G. Callow

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

William G. Callow was a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1921 · age 105
Tenure: 1977–1992 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Wisconsin Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Mount Mary University
Mount Mary University

Judicial Record

In our data, Callow authored 252 published opinions for the court (1978–1992), plus 21 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Pharr (257 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. 57 of these were attributed to Callow 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
1983	State v. Pharr	340 N.W.2d 498	257
1983	Hansen v. AH Robins, Inc.	335 N.W.2d 578	228
1984	Collins v. Eli Lilly & Co.	342 N.W.2d 37	184
1985	State v. Wyss· Concurrence†	370 N.W.2d 745	164
1992	Elliott v. Donahue	485 N.W.2d 403	151
1988	Pamperin v. Trinity Memorial Hospital	423 N.W.2d 848	148
1981	Kranzush v. Badger State Mutual Casualty Co.	307 N.W.2d 256	142
1982	State v. Alles	316 N.W.2d 378	125
1982	State v. Clausen	313 N.W.2d 819	123
1979	Holland v. State	280 N.W.2d 288	121
1991	State v. Martin· Dissent†	470 N.W.2d 900	120
1981	Eberhardy v. Circuit Court for Wood County· Dissent†	307 N.W.2d 881	119
1986	State v. Johnson	395 N.W.2d 176	100
1985	DeMars v. LaPour	366 N.W.2d 891	99
1981	State v. Baldwin	304 N.W.2d 742	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 292 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 William G. Callow on?: William G. Callow 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).