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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1951 / Served to 1966

Harry B. Hershey

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Harry B. Hershey was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1967
Tenure: 1951–1966 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hershey authored 463 published opinions for the court (1951–1966), plus 19 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Ney v. Yellow Cab Co. (372 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. 205 of these were attributed to Hershey 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
1954	Ney v. Yellow Cab Co.· Dissent†	117 N.E.2d 74	372
1955	Kahn v. James Burton Co.· Dissent†	126 N.E.2d 836	363
1961	The People v. Poland	174 N.E.2d 804	205
1952	Nye v. Nye	105 N.E.2d 300	198
1961	Gannon v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railway Co.· Dissent†	22 Ill. 2d 305	162
1953	Ogdon v. Gianakos	114 N.E.2d 686	120
1955	Hall v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.†	125 N.E.2d 77	109
1959	Giacopelli v. Florence Crittenton Home	158 N.E.2d 613	108
1966	Marut v. Costello	214 N.E.2d 768	106
1954	Bowes v. City of Chicago	120 N.E.2d 15	104
1963	Fantozzi v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners	189 N.E.2d 275	99
1964	DeGrazio v. Civil Service Commission†	202 N.E.2d 522	93
1952	Agran v. Checker Taxi Co.	105 N.E.2d 713	92
1952	Dill v. Widman	109 N.E.2d 765	90
1960	Clifford-Jacobs Forging Co. v. Industrial Commission	166 N.E.2d 582	87

Showing the 15 most-cited of 484 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 Harry B. Hershey on?: Harry B. Hershey was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).