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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1913 / Served to 1918

Charles C. Craig

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Charles C. Craig was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1913. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1865–1944
Tenure: 1913–1918 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1913	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Wesleyan University

Judicial Record

In our data, Craig authored 193 published opinions for the court (1885–1918), plus 11 dissents. Most cited: Fergus v. Russel (235 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. 199 of these were attributed to Craig 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
1915	Fergus v. Russel· Dissent†	270 Ill. 304	235
1917	Golden v. Cervenka· Dissent†	278 Ill. 409	136
1914	Schultz v. Henry Ericsson Co.†	264 Ill. 156	94
1918	Mueller Construction Co. v. Industrial Board†	283 Ill. 148	54
1916	Perkins v. Board of County Commissioners†	271 Ill. 449	54
1914	Scown v. Czarnecki· Dissent†	264 Ill. 305	50
1917	People v. Stokes†	281 Ill. 159	43
1915	Graham v. Hagmann†	270 Ill. 252	36
1915	People ex rel. Dougherty v. City of Rock Island†	271 Ill. 412	34
1915	People v. Fox†	269 Ill. 300	33
1918	Kelly v. Chicago City Railway Co.†	283 Ill. 640	32
1917	Ravenswood Hospital v. Maryland Casualty Co.†	280 Ill. 103	29
1917	People v. Clark†	280 Ill. 160	29
1916	Smith v. Chester†	272 Ill. 428	27
1914	People ex rel. Giese v. Dillon· Dissent†	266 Ill. 272	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 204 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 Charles C. Craig on?: Charles C. Craig was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).