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 2000 / Served to 2001

Francis Barth

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Francis Barth was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2001 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barth authored 23 published opinions for the court (2000–2001), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Alderson v. Southern Co. (77 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. 8 of these were attributed to Barth 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
2001	Alderson v. Southern Co.	747 N.E.2d 926	77
2001	Sinclair v. Berlin	758 N.E.2d 442	49
2000	People v. Renee R.†	316 Ill. App. 3d 399	40
2000	Albazzaz v. Department of Professional Regulation†	731 N.E.2d 787	28
2001	Givot v. Orr	746 N.E.2d 810	25
2000	Illinois Central Railroad v. Accident & Casualty Co.	739 N.E.2d 1049	24
2001	People v. Gloria M.†	319 Ill. App. 3d 344	23
2000	Natale v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital· Concurrence†	733 N.E.2d 380	23
2000	World Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Amerus Bank	740 N.E.2d 466	18
2000	Buckholtz v. MacNeal Hospital	729 N.E.2d 949	16
2000	William J. Templeman Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.†	317 Ill. App. 3d 764	15
2001	Stavros v. Marrese	753 N.E.2d 1013	14
2001	Friedl v. Airsource, Inc.	753 N.E.2d 1085	12
2001	In Re CM	744 N.E.2d 916	12
2000	In Re MR	736 N.E.2d 167	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 24 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 Francis Barth on?: Francis Barth was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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1 year 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).