By Kevin Murphy

Voters in the April 2 election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court have choices in candidates with sharply differing political backgrounds in the non-partisan contest.

Both are appellate judges on the Waukesha-based District II Court of Appeals, but arrived there from completely opposite directions. Judge Lisa Neubauer was appointed by then Gov. James Doyle in 2007, and has been elected twice since.

She had donated $8,100 to a Doyle campaign. Also, her husband, Jeff Neubauer, chaired the Wisconsin Democratic Party and served as Bill Clinton’s campaign manager for the state i...