How do judges of the Appellate Court of Illinois reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Appellate Court of Illinois / Joined 1977 / Served to 1979

Alfred Woodward

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Alfred Woodward was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1977–1979 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Woodward authored 386 published opinions for the court (1977–1994), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hoffman v. Allstate Insurance Co. (64 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 56 of these were attributed to Woodward by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1980	Hoffman v. Allstate Insurance Co.	407 N.E.2d 156	64
1992	Milex Products, Inc. v. Alra Laboratories, Inc.	603 N.E.2d 1226	54
1992	Woodard v. Krans	600 N.E.2d 477	53
1987	In Re Custody of McCarthy	510 N.E.2d 555	51
1989	People v. Trimble	537 N.E.2d 363	46
1991	Pease v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150	567 N.E.2d 614	43
1991	Benhart v. Rockford Park District	578 N.E.2d 600	41
1989	People v. Rocha	547 N.E.2d 1335	41
1986	Friedman v. Park District of Highland Park	502 N.E.2d 826	39
1993	Smith v. Tri-R Vending	619 N.E.2d 172	38
1992	People v. Furby	591 N.E.2d 533	32
1990	Ahern v. Knecht	563 N.E.2d 787	32
1978	Beresky v. Teschner	381 N.E.2d 979	32
1994	Draper v. Frontier Insurance	638 N.E.2d 1176	31
1980	Ricke v. Ricke	405 N.E.2d 351	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 390 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Appellate Court of Illinois reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Alfred Woodward on?: Alfred Woodward was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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2 years on the Appellate Court of Illinois. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).