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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1988 / Served to 1991

Horace L. Calvo

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Horace L. Calvo was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–1991
Tenure: 1988–1991 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Calvo authored 38 published opinions for the court (1989–1991), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Quake Construction, Inc. v. American Airlines, Inc. (307 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 Calvo 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
1990	Quake Construction, Inc. v. American Airlines, Inc.	565 N.E.2d 990	307
1990	People v. Reid	554 N.E.2d 174	306
1990	People v. Redd	553 N.E.2d 316	223
1990	Deibert v. Bauer Bros. Const. Co., Inc.	566 N.E.2d 239	208
1990	People v. House	566 N.E.2d 259	187
1990	Business & Professional People for the Public Interest v. Illinois Commerce Commission	555 N.E.2d 693	170
1990	Stratton v. Wenona Community Unit District No. 1	551 N.E.2d 640	153
1990	Hayes v. Mercy Hospital & Medical Center· Dissent†	557 N.E.2d 873	145
1990	Segal v. Sacco	555 N.E.2d 719	115
1990	City of Chicago v. Anthony	554 N.E.2d 1381	109
1990	Gatlin v. Ruder	560 N.E.2d 586	100
1990	People v. Moore	549 N.E.2d 1257	89
1989	People v. Schmitt	545 N.E.2d 665	82
1989	People v. R.G.	546 N.E.2d 533	80
1989	City of Burbank v. Illinois State Labor Relations Board	538 N.E.2d 1146	78

Showing the 15 most-cited of 44 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 Horace L. Calvo on?: Horace L. Calvo was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).