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 2002 / Active

Barbara Gilleran Johnson

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Barbara Gilleran Johnson is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Education

Yale University
California Western School of Law

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 659 published opinions for the court (1973–2008), plus 13 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Blair v. Nevada Landing Partnership, RBG, LP (79 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. 41 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
2006	Blair v. Nevada Landing Partnership, RBG, LP	859 N.E.2d 1188	79
2004	People v. Garvin	812 N.E.2d 773	78
1991	155 Harbor Drive Condominium Ass'n v. Harbor Point Inc.	568 N.E.2d 365	77
1980	People v. Smith	414 N.E.2d 1117	75
1986	Corroon & Black of Illinois, Inc. v. Magner	494 N.E.2d 785	70
1985	Shaheed v. Chicago Transit Authority	484 N.E.2d 542	67
1985	People v. Holloway	475 N.E.2d 915	57
1987	Beaton & Associates, Ltd. v. Joslyn Manufacturing & Supply Co.	512 N.E.2d 1286	55
1986	Barth v. Board of Education of City of Chicago	490 N.E.2d 77	54
2006	People v. LaPointe	850 N.E.2d 893	53
2003	NEUROSURGERY AND SPINE SURGERY v. Goldman	790 N.E.2d 925	53
1993	State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Hatherley	621 N.E.2d 39	53
1991	People v. Johnson	575 N.E.2d 1247	53
1990	Millard Maintenance Service Co. v. Bernero	566 N.E.2d 379	53
2005	People v. Dahlberg	823 N.E.2d 649	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 679 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 is Barbara Gilleran Johnson on?: Barbara Gilleran Johnson is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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24 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).