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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Appellate Court of Illinois / Joined 1985 / Served to 1992

Mary Ann McMorrow

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Mary Ann McMorrow was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1992 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McMorrow authored 191 published opinions for the court (1985–1992), plus 21 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Center (92 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. 70 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
1990	People v. Center	556 N.E.2d 724	92
1992	People v. Morris	593 N.E.2d 932	65
1992	McDermott v. Metropolitan Sanitary District	607 N.E.2d 1271	54
1988	Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Anderson	532 N.E.2d 595	50
1987	Berkos v. National Broadcasting Co.	515 N.E.2d 668	50
1992	Lundquist v. Nickels	605 N.E.2d 1373	49
1990	INTERN. SURPLUS LINES INS. CO. v. Pioneer Life Ins. Co.	568 N.E.2d 9	48
1986	Gordon v. Tow	498 N.E.2d 718	41
1988	People v. Escobar· Dissent†	522 N.E.2d 191	39
1992	Sompolski v. Miller	608 N.E.2d 54	37
1991	Haid v. Tingle	579 N.E.2d 913	37
1991	Nichols v. Department of Employment Security	578 N.E.2d 1121	36
1991	Cravens v. Inman	586 N.E.2d 367	35
1989	Kosinski v. Inland Steel Co.	549 N.E.2d 784	35
1992	People v. Upton	595 N.E.2d 56	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 215 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 Mary Ann McMorrow on?: Mary Ann McMorrow was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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7 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).