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 1942 / Served to 1951

George W. Bristow

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

George W. Bristow was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1942–1951 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bristow authored 172 published opinions for the court (1942–1951). Most cited: Aldridge v. Morris (44 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. 157 of these were attributed to Bristow 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
1949	Aldridge v. Morris†	337 Ill. App. 369	44
1943	Spence v. Washington National Insurance†	320 Ill. App. 149	44
1947	Johnson v. Luhman†	330 Ill. App. 598	40
1948	Stephens v. Weigel†	336 Ill. App. 36	37
1949	Board of Trustees v. Village of Glen Ellyn†	337 Ill. App. 183	36
1949	Baker v. Thompson†	337 Ill. App. 327	31
1948	Woodward Governor Co. v. City of Loves Park†	335 Ill. App. 528	30
1948	Applegate v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.†	334 Ill. App. 141	30
1948	Economy Auto Insurance v. Brown†	334 Ill. App. 579	25
1950	Savoie v. Town of Bourbonnais†	90 N.E.2d 645	22
1946	Ritter v. Nieman†	329 Ill. App. 163	22
1951	Koenig v. McCARTHY CONSTR. CO., INC.†	100 N.E.2d 338	21
1948	Parker v. Parker†	335 Ill. App. 293	21
1946	Killian v. Welfare Engineering Co.†	328 Ill. App. 375	19
1947	Dinoffria v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters†	331 Ill. App. 129	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 172 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 George W. Bristow on?: George W. Bristow was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

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9 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).