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Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1992 / Served to 2006

Mary Ann G. McMorrow

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Mary Ann G. McMorrow was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–2013
Tenure: 1992–2006 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McMorrow authored 247 published opinions for the court (1993–2006), plus 53 dissents and 40 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Edwards (888 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. 117 of these were attributed to McMorrow 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
2001	People v. Edwards	757 N.E.2d 442	888
1996	Connick v. Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd.· Concurrence†	675 N.E.2d 584	836
2005	Avery v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	835 N.E.2d 801	709
2006	Marshall v. Burger King Corp.· Dissent†	856 N.E.2d 1048	606
1996	Bryson v. News America Publications, Inc.· Dissent†	672 N.E.2d 1207	572
1997	Best v. Taylor MacHine Works	689 N.E.2d 1057	571
1997	In Re Chicago Flood Litigation· Concurrence†	680 N.E.2d 265	537
2000	People v. Blue	724 N.E.2d 920	520
2000	Michigan Avenue National Bank v. County of Cook	732 N.E.2d 528	492
1998	River Park, Inc. v. City of Highland Park	703 N.E.2d 883	484
2005	People v. Patterson	841 N.E.2d 889	466
2002	People v. Boclair· Concurrence†	789 N.E.2d 734	446
1995	Leonardi v. Loyola University of Chicago· Dissent†	658 N.E.2d 450	445
2005	People v. Whitfield	840 N.E.2d 658	424
2004	People v. Harvey· Concurrence†	813 N.E.2d 181	422

Showing the 15 most-cited of 340 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 Mary Ann G. McMorrow on?: Mary Ann G. McMorrow was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).