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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 2006 / Former Justice

Anne M. Burke

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Anne M. Burke was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

DePaul University

Judicial Record

In our data, Burke authored 86 published opinions for the court (2006–2019), plus 15 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Thompson (973 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. 43 of these were attributed to Burke 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
2010	People v. Thompson· Dissent†	939 N.E.2d 403	973
2010	People v. Alexander	940 N.E.2d 1062	614
2009	People v. Glasper· Dissent†	917 N.E.2d 401	483
2017	People v. Bailey†	2017 IL 121450	440
2009	People v. Ortiz	919 N.E.2d 941	376
2010	People v. Petrenko· Concurrence†	237 Ill. 2d 490	251
2006	Mohanty v. St. John Heart Clinic, S.C.	866 N.E.2d 85	204
2009	People v. Patrick· Concurrence†	908 N.E.2d 1	195
2010	People v. Miller	938 N.E.2d 498	187
2008	People v. Wear· Concurrence†	893 N.E.2d 631	174
2011	People v. Beauchamp· Dissent†	944 N.E.2d 319	167
2008	People v. Rolandis G.	902 N.E.2d 600	154
2009	Landis v. Marc Realty, L.L.C.	919 N.E.2d 300	147
2010	People v. Close· Dissent†	939 N.E.2d 463	142
2007	Brucker v. Mercola· Concurrence†	886 N.E.2d 306	138

Showing the 15 most-cited of 114 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 Anne M. Burke on?: Anne M. Burke was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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20 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).