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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1942 / Served to 1951

Charles H. Thompson

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Charles H. Thompson was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1972
Tenure: 1942–1951 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Thompson authored 497 published opinions for the court (1919–1957), plus 28 dissents. Most cited: Lindroth v. Walgreen Co. (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. 28 of these were attributed to Thompson 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
1950	Lindroth v. Walgreen Co.	94 N.E.2d 847	235
1943	Neering v. I.C.R.R. Co.	50 N.E.2d 497	175
1945	Barnard v. Michael	63 N.E.2d 858	143
1947	The People v. Kidd	75 N.E.2d 851	134
1949	The People v. Redlich	83 N.E.2d 736	128
1948	The People v. Gambony	83 N.E.2d 321	110
1927	Schumann-Heink v. Folsom	159 N.E. 250	108
1948	Roda v. Berko	81 N.E.2d 912	107
1925	Kelley v. Kelley	147 N.E. 659	104
1942	Doner v. Phoenix Joint Stock Land Bank of Kansas City	45 N.E.2d 20	102
1946	Lasko v. Meier	67 N.E.2d 162	97
1943	Clarke v. Storchak	52 N.E.2d 229	93
1957	Bowman v. Illinois Central Railroad	142 N.E.2d 104	88
1925	Wicks v. Cuneo-Henneberry Co.	150 N.E. 276	87
1949	Town of Cicero v. Industrial Commission	89 N.E.2d 354	77

Showing the 15 most-cited of 526 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 H. Thompson on?: Charles H. Thompson 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).