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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1924 / Served to 1934

Frederic R. DeYoung

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Frederic R. DeYoung was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1924. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1875–1934
Tenure: 1924–1934 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1924	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, DeYoung authored 435 published opinions for the court (1924–1934), plus 16 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: City of Aurora v. Burns (121 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. 35 of these were attributed to DeYoung 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
1925	City of Aurora v. Burns	149 N.E. 784	121
1931	The People v. Bruner	175 N.E. 400	78
1930	People Ex Rel. Swanson v. Fisher	172 N.E. 722	73
1932	Dahmer v. Wensler	182 N.E. 799	60
1924	People v. Barnes†	314 Ill. 140	60
1934	The People v. Callopy· Dissent	192 N.E. 634	59
1934	Curry v. Cotton· Dissent	191 N.E. 307	55
1929	The People v. Golub.	165 N.E. 196	55
1934	Gurnett v. Mutual Life Insurance	191 N.E. 250	54
1924	Hoier v. Kaplan†	313 Ill. 448	54
1925	Duncan v. Dazey	149 N.E. 495	53
1930	The People v. Lenhardt	173 N.E. 155	52
1926	Maginnis v. Maginnis	153 N.E. 654	52
1934	Seuss v. Schukat	192 N.E. 668	49
1932	Moran v. Bowley· Dissent	179 N.E. 526	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 455 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 Frederic R. DeYoung on?: Frederic R. DeYoung was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).