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The Illinois Appellate Court has 52 judges serving five districts. The majority of the judges (18 in the First District, and between seven and nine in each of the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Districts) are elected, with the remaining judges having been appointed by the Supreme Court of Illinois .
Pages in category "Judges of the Illinois Appellate Court" The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Illinois Appellate Court is the court of first appeal for civil and criminal cases rising in the Illinois circuit courts. Three Illinois Appellate Court judges hear each case and the concurrence of two is necessary to render a decision. [ 4 ]
O'Brien was appointed a judge of the Third District of the Illinois Appellate Court to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Thomas J. Homer. [5] She was sworn in on December 26, 2003. [6] O'Brien was elected to the court in 2004 and retained in 2014. [7] O'Brien was elected to the third district seat on the Illinois Supreme Court in ...
Joseph E. Birkett (born February 13, 1955) is an appellate court judge on the Illinois Appellate Court – Second District. He was appointed by the Illinois Supreme Court in December 2010, and was subsequently elected to a full term in November 2012.
F. Keith Brown (1981): [20] [21] First African American male judge to serve as a Chief Judge in the Sixteenth Judicial District Court (Kane County, Illinois; 1991) Thomas R. Chiola (1974): [22] First openly LGBT male judge in Illinois (1994) Sebastian Patti: [23] [24] First openly LGBT male to serve as an appellate court judge in Illinois (1995)
Joy Virginia Cunningham (born 1951) [1] is an American lawyer from Illinois who serves as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. She previously served as a justice of the Illinois First District Appellate Court from 2016 until 2022. Before becoming a lawyer, she worked as a nurse, and later worked as counsel for several university hospital ...
The Supreme Court of Illinois is the state supreme court, the highest court of the judiciary of Illinois.The court's authority is granted in Article VI of the current Illinois Constitution, which provides for seven justices elected from the five appellate judicial districts of the state: three justices from the First District (Cook County) and one from each of the other four districts.