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 1960 / Served to 1969

Marvin F. Burt

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Marvin F. Burt was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1960–1969 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Burt authored 4 published opinions for the court (1967). Most cited: Rowe v. Frazer (14 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. 1 of these was attributed to Burt 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
1967	Rowe v. Frazer	227 N.E.2d 781	14
1967	Henry v. Robert Kettell Construction Corp.	226 N.E.2d 89	9
1967	People v. Jinkins	225 N.E.2d 657	6
1967	McDonald v. Risch†	90 Ill. App. 2d 445	3

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 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 Marvin F. Burt on?: Marvin F. Burt was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

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9 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).