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 1933 / Active

Edward Shurtleff

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Edward Shurtleff is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, serving since 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1933 · 93 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shurtleff authored 20 published opinions for the court (1933). Most cited: Rozgis v. Missouri State Life Insurance (7 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. 20 of these were attributed to Shurtleff 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
1933	Rozgis v. Missouri State Life Insurance†	271 Ill. App. 155	7
1933	Wood v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America†	271 Ill. App. 103	7
1933	Cutwright v. Preachers' Aid Society†	271 Ill. App. 168	6
1933	Daugherty v. Alliance Casualty Co.†	271 Ill. App. 71	6
1933	Ankrom v. Doss†	270 Ill. App. 464	3
1933	Backs v. Nelson Construction Co.†	271 Ill. App. 137	2
1933	Burns v. Salyers†	270 Ill. App. 46	2
1933	Barnstable v. Calandro†	270 Ill. App. 57	2
1933	Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Gaumer†	269 Ill. App. 196	2
1933	Bevilauqua v. City of Taylorville†	271 Ill. App. 82	1
1933	Snow v. Anderson†	270 Ill. App. 453	1
1933	John B. Colegrove & Co. State Bank v. Gaupp†	271 Ill. App. 51	1
1933	People ex rel. Nelson v. Bank of Rushville†	271 Ill. App. 130	0
1933	Keys v. North†	271 Ill. App. 119	0
1933	Markwell v. Dolan†	270 Ill. App. 639	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 20 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 Edward Shurtleff on?: Edward Shurtleff is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

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93 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).