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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Appellate Court of Illinois / Joined 1973 / Served to 1979

Le Roy L. Rechenmacher

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Le Roy L. Rechenmacher was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1996
Tenure: 1973–1979 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rechenmacher authored 346 published opinions for the court (1971–1979), plus 10 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Madden v. Kuehn (79 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. 174 of these were attributed to Rechenmacher 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
1978	Madden v. Kuehn	372 N.E.2d 1131	79
1978	Lyddon v. Shaw	372 N.E.2d 685	76
1978	Fure v. Sherman Hospital	380 N.E.2d 1376	52
1975	Dakovitz v. Arrow Road Construction Co.	324 N.E.2d 444	45
1978	Hintz v. Lazarus	373 N.E.2d 1018	41
1977	People v. Limas	359 N.E.2d 1194	41
1976	Millsaps v. Bankers Life Co.	342 N.E.2d 329	41
1976	Beckmire v. Ristokrat Clay Products Co.	343 N.E.2d 530	36
1976	Newell v. City of Elgin	340 N.E.2d 344	36
1978	Hakala v. Illinois Dodge City Corp.	380 N.E.2d 1177	33
1977	Spears v. Spears	367 N.E.2d 1004	31
1977	People v. Shipp	367 N.E.2d 966	31
1974	Dickerson Realtors, Inc. v. Frewert	307 N.E.2d 445	26
1979	Wright v. County of Winnebago· Dissent†	391 N.E.2d 772	25
1979	People v. Fidler	391 N.E.2d 210	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 358 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 Le Roy L. Rechenmacher on?: Le Roy L. Rechenmacher was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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6 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).