2003 Wisconsin Supreme Court election

2003 Wisconsin Supreme Court election

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Candidate Patience Roggensack Edward R. Brunner Popular vote 409,422 390,215 Percentage 51.13% 48.73%

Roggensack:      50–60%      60–70% Brunner:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Justice before election William A. Bablitch Elected Justice Patience Roggensack

The 2003 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on April 1, 2003, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Patience Roggensack defeated Edward R. Brunner and Paul B. Higginbotham (the latter of whom was eliminated in a nonpartisan primary). Incumbent justice William A. Bablitch did not seek re-election.

Prior to the election, the court's ideological composition had 3 liberal justices, 3 conservative justices, and 1 centrist justice. By replacing the liberal Bablitch with the conservative Roggensack, the election resulted in a short-lived conservative ideological majority on the court (after Louis B. Butler's appointment the next year, this majority would be lost).^[1]