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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1941 / Served to 1947

June C. Smith

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

June C. Smith was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1947
Tenure: 1941–1947 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Smith authored 222 published opinions for the court (1941–1962), plus 8 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Merlo v. Public Service Co. (369 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. 4 of these were attributed to Smith 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
1942	Merlo v. Public Service Co.	45 N.E.2d 665	369
1943	Neering v. I.C.R.R. Co.· Concurrence	50 N.E.2d 497	175
1943	Brauer MacHine & Supply Co. Ex Rel. Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. Parkhill Truck Co.	50 N.E.2d 831	95
1945	City of Elmhurst v. Kegerreis	64 N.E.2d 450	86
1945	Zurn v. City of Chicago	59 N.E.2d 18	81
1944	Illinois Central Railroad v. Franklin County	56 N.E.2d 775	72
1944	Oglesby v. Springfield Marine Bank	52 N.E.2d 1000	66
1943	People Ex Rel. Board of Trustees v. Barrett	46 N.E.2d 951	65
1945	Morris v. Goldthorp	60 N.E.2d 857	63
1944	Krebs v. Thompson	56 N.E.2d 761	60
1945	People Ex Rel. Waite v. Bristow	62 N.E.2d 545	54
1941	Clark v. Quick· Dissent	36 N.E.2d 563	51
1944	Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. v. Board of Education	54 N.E.2d 498	50
1944	People Ex Rel. Barrett v. Sbarbaro	54 N.E.2d 559	48
1962	Orme v. Northern Trust Co.	183 N.E.2d 505	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 234 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 June C. Smith on?: June C. Smith was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).