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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1906 / Served to 1915

Alonzo K. Vickers

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Alonzo K. Vickers was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1906. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1853–1915
Tenure: 1906–1915 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1906	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vickers authored 431 published opinions for the court (1906–1915), plus 10 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington (142 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. 444 of these were attributed to Vickers 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
1911	Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington†	253 Ill. 164	142
1909	Seith v. Commonwealth Electric Co.· Dissent†	241 Ill. 252	114
1907	Pauckner v. Wakem†	231 Ill. 276	111
1909	Frazier v. Patterson†	243 Ill. 80	103
1913	Checkley v. Illinois Central Railroad†	257 Ill. 491	77
1914	Daughetee v. Ohio Oil Co.†	263 Ill. 518	68
1908	Conway v. City of Chicago†	237 Ill. 128	66
1913	People ex rel. Cant v. Crossley†	261 Ill. 78	63
1913	Cramer v. Illinois Commercial Men's Ass'n· Dissent†	260 Ill. 516	61
1907	Erford v. City of Peoria†	229 Ill. 546	61
1913	People ex rel. Friend v. City of Chicago†	261 Ill. 16	57
1912	Standidge v. Chicago Railways Co.†	254 Ill. 524	55
1912	People ex rel. Stead v. Spring Lake Drainage & Levee District†	253 Ill. 479	55
1907	Collins v. Metropolitan Life Insurance†	232 Ill. 37	55
1911	Clark v. Zaleski†	253 Ill. 63	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 445 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 Illinois Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Alonzo K. Vickers on?: Alonzo K. Vickers was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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