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 1989 / Served to 2014

Joseph Gordon

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Joseph Gordon was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2014 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Education

Roosevelt University
Northwestern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gordon authored 422 published opinions for the court (1990–2005), plus 5 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: United States Gypsum Co. v. Admiral Insurance (142 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. 82 of these were attributed to Gordon 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
1994	United States Gypsum Co. v. Admiral Insurance†	643 N.E.2d 1226	142
2001	Miller v. William Chevrolet/GEO, Inc.	762 N.E.2d 1	127
1995	Soderlund Bros., Inc. v. Carrier Corp.	663 N.E.2d 1	125
2005	William Blair & Co. v. Fi Liquidation Corp.	830 N.E.2d 760	124
1995	Smith v. Prime Cable of Chicago	658 N.E.2d 1325	121
2005	Knauerhaze v. Nelson†	836 N.E.2d 640	103
1996	Lawson v. City of Chicago	662 N.E.2d 1377	98
1992	Grossinger Motorcorp, Inc. v. American National Bank & Trust Co.	607 N.E.2d 1337	98
1990	Pavilon v. Kaferly	561 N.E.2d 1245	86
2003	People v. Smith	794 N.E.2d 367	85
2004	Schwinder v. Austin Bank of Chicago	809 N.E.2d 180	82
2004	Mekertichian v. Mercedes-Benz U.S.A., L.L.C.	807 N.E.2d 1165	81
1993	Diamond State Insurance v. Chester-Jensen Co.	611 N.E.2d 1083	77
2001	In Re Possession & Control of the Commissioner of Banks†	764 N.E.2d 66	76
1998	Ferguson v. Bill Berger Associates, Inc.	704 N.E.2d 830	75

Showing the 15 most-cited of 435 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 Joseph Gordon on?: Joseph Gordon was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

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25 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).