List of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices

This is a list of justices serving in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Territorial judges

Name Term of Service Term of Service as Chief
Charles Dunn 1836–1848 1836–1848
William C. Frazer 1836–1838
David Irvin 1836–1848
Andrew G. Miller 1838–1848

Circuit Justices serving as Supreme Court Justices

Name Term of Service Term of Service as Chief
Alexander W. Stow 1848–1851 1848–1851
Levi Hubbell 1848–1853 1851
Edward V. Whiton 1848–1853 1852–1853
Charles H. Larrabee 1848–1853
Mortimer M. Jackson 1848–1853
Wiram Knowlton 1850–1853
Timothy O. Howe 1851–1853

Justices since 1853

Name Term of Service Term of Service as Chief
Edward V. Whiton 1853–1859 1853–1859
Samuel Crawford 1853–1855
Abram D. Smith 1853–1859
Orsamus Cole 1855–1892 1880–1892
Luther S. Dixon 1859–1874 1859–1874
Byron Paine 1859–1864
Jason Downer 1864–1867
Byron Paine 1867–1871
William P. Lyon 1871–1894 1892–1894
Edward George Ryan 1874–1880 1874–1880
David Taylor 1878–1891
Harlow S. Orton 1878–1895 1894–1895
John B. Cassoday 1880–1907 1895–1907
John B. Winslow 1891–1920 1907–1920
Silas U. Pinney 1892–1898
Alfred W. Newman 1894–1898
Roujet D. Marshall 1895–1918
Charles V. Bardeen 1898–1903
Joshua Eric Dodge 1898–1910
Robert G. Siebecker 1903–1922 1920–1922
James C. Kerwin 1905–1921
William H. Timlin 1907–1916
Robert McKee Bashford 1908–1908
John Barnes 1908–1916
Aad J. Vinje 1910–1929 1922–1929
Marvin B. Rosenberry 1916–1950 1929–1950
Franz C. Eschweiler 1916–1929
Walter C. Owen 1918–1934
Burr W. Jones 1920–1926
Christian Doerfler 1921–1929
Charles H. Crownhart 1922–1930
E. Ray Stevens 1926–1930
Chester A. Fowler 1929–1948
Oscar M. Fritz 1929–1954 1950–1954
Edward T. Fairchild 1929–1957 1954–1957
John D. Wickhem 1930–1949
George B. Nelson 1930–1942
Theodore G. Lewis 1934–1934
Joseph Martin 1934–1946
Elmer E. Barlow 1942–1948
James Ward Rector 1946–1947
Henry P. Hughes 1948–1951
John E. Martin 1948–1962 1957–1962
Grover L. Broadfoot 1948–1962 1962
Timothy Brown 1949–1964 1962–1964
Edward J. Gehl 1950–1956
George R. Currie 1951–1968 1964–1968
Roland J. Steinle 1954–1958
Emmert L. Wingert 1956–1959
Thomas E. Fairchild 1957–1966
E. Harold Hallows 1958–1974 1968–1974
William H. Dieterich 1959–1964
Myron L. Gordon 1962–1967
Horace W. Wilkie 1962–1976 1974–1976
Bruce F. Beilfuss 1964–1983 1976–1983
Nathan S. Heffernan 1964–1995 1983–1995
Leo B. Hanley 1966–1978
Connor Hansen 1967–1980
Robert W. Hansen 1968–1978
Roland B. Day 1974–1996 1995–1996
Shirley S. Abrahamson 1976–present 1996–present
William G. Callow 1977–1992
John L. Coffey 1978–1982
Donald W. Steinmetz 1980–1999
Louis J. Ceci 1982–1993
William A. Bablitch 1983–2003
Jon P. Wilcox 1992–2007
Janine P. Geske 1993–1998
Ann Walsh Bradley 1995–present
N. Patrick Crooks 1996–present
David T. Prosser, Jr. 1998–present
Diane S. Sykes 1999–2004
Patience D. Roggensack 2003–present
Louis B. Butler, Jr. 2004–2008
Annette K. Ziegler 2007–present
Michael Gableman 2008–present