Elected (nonpartisan)7 justices· 10-year terms· WI
Chief: Elected by a majority vote of the justices then serving on the court, for a 2-year term (since a 2015 constitutional amendment; previously the longest-serving justice)..
Adopted 1848. Its declaration of rights sits in Article I (Declaration of Rights). This court has the final word on what the Wisconsin constitution means.
Mixed approach
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).
