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 1985 / Served to 2000

William Eich

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

William Eich was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2000 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Beloit College

Judicial Record

In our data, Eich authored 535 published opinions for the court (1985–2000), plus 13 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Witkowski (91 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. 256 of these were attributed to Eich 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
1991	State v. Witkowski	473 N.W.2d 512	91
1991	Burkes v. Hales†	478 N.W.2d 37	86
1991	Fortier v. Flambeau Plastics Co.	476 N.W.2d 593	79
1995	Foseid v. State Bank of Cross Plains	541 N.W.2d 203	77
1988	Professional Office Buildings, Inc. v. Royal Indemnity Co.†	427 N.W.2d 427	69
1999	State v. Betow†	593 N.W.2d 499	59
1997	Barron Electric Cooperative v. Public Service Commission†	569 N.W.2d 726	52
1994	Kenefick v. Hitchcock	522 N.W.2d 261	51
1988	Super Valu Stores, Inc. v. D-Mart Food Stores, Inc.†	431 N.W.2d 721	51
1988	M.C.I., Inc. v. Elbin†	430 N.W.2d 366	47
1987	Prahl v. Brosamle†	420 N.W.2d 372	47
1990	State v. Johnson†	463 N.W.2d 352	45
1990	Schneller Ex Rel. Schneller v. St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center	455 N.W.2d 250	45
1990	Man Ngok Tam v. Hoi Hong K. Luk†	453 N.W.2d 158	44
1997	State v. Young	569 N.W.2d 84	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 550 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 William Eich on?: William Eich was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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15 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).