From the court website: The Court of Appeals is composed of 16 judges from four districts. The judges are elected to six-year terms in district-wide, non-partisan April elections. Vacancies are filled by gubernatorial appointment and the appointee is required to stand for election to a full six-year term the following spring.
Fine has been on the Court of Appeals, District IV, since 1988
Dykman, District IV, since 1978
Wedemeyer, District I, 1982-88 and 1991-present
None of these are up for reelection this year. District I is Milwaukee County; District IV is the southwest third of the state. See map:
http://www.wicourts.gov/about/organization/appeals/map.htmWedemeyer was a substitute for one of the original judges on the panel, who was replaced because of his own conflict of interest. Here's the story from the Journal-Sentinel:
Thursday, Sep 13 2007, 04:21 PM
Madison -- One of the three judges ordered today to hear an ethics complaint against state Supreme Court Justice Annette K. Ziegler gave Ziegler $100 late last year, campaign records show.
Today, Chief Appeals Judge Richard S. Brown told three appeals judges to hear the complaint against Ziegler: Judge Michael Hoover, Judge Charles P. Dykman and Judge Ralph Adam Fine.
Hoover gave Ziegler's campaign $100 in November 2006, campaign records show. The contribution came months before widespread media reports of Ziegler handling cases as a Washington County Circuit Court judge involving a bank her husband helps run. ...
UPDATE: Two and a half hours after appointing the panel, Brown reversed himself this evening. He withdrew his order appointing Hoover and the others to the panel and said he would appoint a new panel soon.
Brown has not said whether he was aware of Hoover's donation when he appointed him to the panel.
http://blogs.jsonline.com/allpoliticswatch/archive/tags/Ethics/default.aspx
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