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 1987 / Served to 1994

Blanche Manning

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Blanche Manning was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–1994 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Manning authored 208 published opinions for the court (1951–1994), plus 16 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Zadrozny v. City Colleges (81 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. 76 of these were attributed to Manning 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
1991	Zadrozny v. City Colleges†	220 Ill. App. 3d 290	81
1990	Wasleff v. Dever	550 N.E.2d 1132	59
1988	Landmark Properties, Inc. v. Architects International-Chicago	526 N.E.2d 603	57
1990	People v. Brown	558 N.E.2d 309	56
1989	In Re Marriage of Jones	543 N.E.2d 119	50
1994	People v. Bailey	638 N.E.2d 192	48
1994	Pyskaty v. Oyama	641 N.E.2d 552	47
1988	Wells v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.	525 N.E.2d 1127	47
1991	People v. Young	581 N.E.2d 241	45
1988	Kokoyachuk v. Aeroquip Corp.	526 N.E.2d 607	45
1991	Kirnbauer v. Cook County Forest Preserve District	576 N.E.2d 168	44
1989	People v. Palmer	545 N.E.2d 743	44
1994	Olsen v. Staniak	632 N.E.2d 168	42
1993	Twin City Fire Insurance v. Old World Trading Co.	639 N.E.2d 584	42
1991	Munizza v. City of Chicago	583 N.E.2d 561	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 226 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 Blanche Manning on?: Blanche Manning was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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7 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).