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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 2004 / Former Justice

Lloyd A. Karmeier

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Lloyd A. Karmeier was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Karmeier authored 113 published opinions for the court (2005–2018), plus 12 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Pendleton (851 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. 38 of these were attributed to Karmeier 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
2006	People v. Pendleton	861 N.E.2d 999	851
2009	People v. Jackson	903 N.E.2d 388	453
2006	DeLuna v. Burciaga	857 N.E.2d 229	453
2010	People v. Becker†	239 Ill. 2d 215	285
2010	People v. Sargent	940 N.E.2d 1045	283
2010	Pekin Insurance v. Wilson	930 N.E.2d 1011	276
2010	Lebron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital· Concurrence†	930 N.E.2d 895	270
2011	People v. Manning· Concurrence†	948 N.E.2d 542	269
2007	Wade v. City of North Chicago Police Pension Board	877 N.E.2d 1101	219
2008	O'Casek v. Children's Home & Aid Society· Dissent†	892 N.E.2d 994	212
2006	Mohanty v. St. John Heart Clinic, S.C.· Concurrence†	866 N.E.2d 85	204
2011	People v. Marshall	950 N.E.2d 668	192
2006	People v. J.T.†	221 Ill. 2d 338	191
2010	Solon v. Midwest Medical Records Ass'n	925 N.E.2d 1113	189
2006	Krautsack v. Anderson· Dissent†	861 N.E.2d 633	180

Showing the 15 most-cited of 131 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 Lloyd A. Karmeier on?: Lloyd A. Karmeier was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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22 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).