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Founded in 1818, the Illinois Supreme Court is the state's highest court and has seven judgeships. The current chief of the court is Mary Jane Theis. As of December 2022, five judges on the court were Democrats and two judges were Republicans.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has a system unique among state supreme courts in which it elects its justices from electoral districts through partisan elections. [4] Under the current structuring of the court (outlined in Article VI of the 1970 state constitution), the court has seven justices representing the state's four appellate districts.
On Nov. 5 Illinoisans will vote to elect two Illinois Supreme Court justices and nine appellate court justices, and whether to retain four sitting appellate court justices. Every general...
Following an appointment by the Illinois Supreme Court, Justice White was sworn in on January 14, 2013, as the first Black Justice on the Illinois Appellate Court, Fourth District. In 2014, she was elected to the Illinois Appellate Court, Fourth District.
Supreme court justices in Illinois are elected to represent specific districts. The seven justices are divided among five districts (three allocated to Cook County and the others divided evenly among the other four districts) and are voted into office by the residents of their respective regions.
In one race, former prosecutor and Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran, a Republican, is facing Democrat Elizabeth Rochford, who currently serves as a circuit court judge in Lake County. In the...
View all past Illinois Supreme Court Justices listed by years served and read their biographies.