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 1978 / Served to 1992

William R. Moser

Judge, Court of Appeals of Wisconsin

William R. Moser was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1992 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	Court of Appeals of Wisconsin	–	–

Education

Marquette University

Judicial Record

In our data, Moser authored 126 published opinions for the court (1978–1992), plus 11 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: U.S. Oil Co. v. Midwest Auto Care Services, Inc. (53 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. 126 of these were attributed to Moser 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
1989	U.S. Oil Co. v. Midwest Auto Care Services, Inc.†	440 N.W.2d 825	53
1992	State v. Jenkins· Dissent†	483 N.W.2d 262	47
1984	State v. Gavigan†	362 N.W.2d 162	41
1983	State v. Daniels†	343 N.W.2d 411	39
1983	Landess v. Schmidt· Concurrence†	340 N.W.2d 213	38
1985	Swan Sales Corp. v. Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co.†	374 N.W.2d 640	36
1987	Wisconsin Electric Power Co. v. California Union Insurance†	419 N.W.2d 255	34
1983	County of Milwaukee v. State, Labor & Industry Review Commission†	335 N.W.2d 412	34
1992	Franzen v. Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Inc.†	485 N.W.2d 603	31
1989	State v. Jones†	444 N.W.2d 760	30
1981	Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Wisconsin Personnel Commission· Dissent†	309 N.W.2d 366	30
1988	Kocinski v. Home Insurance Co.· Dissent†	433 N.W.2d 654	29
1986	State v. Stinson†	397 N.W.2d 136	28
1985	State Ex Rel. Klieger v. Alby†	373 N.W.2d 57	28
1979	State v. Dronso†	279 N.W.2d 710	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 139 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 R. Moser on?: William R. Moser was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Sources

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14 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).