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 2010 / Active

Michael M. Toomin

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Michael M. Toomin is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Toomin authored 51 published opinions for the court (2008–2010). Most cited: People v. Collier (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. 1 of these was attributed to Toomin 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
2008	People v. Collier	900 N.E.2d 396	79
2010	People v. Jones	927 N.E.2d 710	75
2009	Sudzus v. Department of Employment Security	914 N.E.2d 208	70
2010	Piser v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	938 N.E.2d 640	67
2010	Janowiak v. Tiesi†	402 Ill. App. 3d 997	59
2009	John Crane, Inc. v. Admiral Ins. Co.	910 N.E.2d 1168	44
2010	Apollo Real Estate Investment Fund, IV, L.P. v. Gelber	935 N.E.2d 963	42
2009	Preferred Personnel Services, Inc. v. Meltzer, Purtill & Stelle, LLC	902 N.E.2d 146	42
2009	People v. Estrada	914 N.E.2d 679	41
2010	Estate of Michalak v. Robert	934 N.E.2d 697	38
2009	Spiegelman v. Victory Memorial Hospital	911 N.E.2d 1022	38
2009	People v. Ramos	920 N.E.2d 504	37
2010	Stapleton Ex Rel. Clark v. Moore	932 N.E.2d 487	35
2010	People v. Jessica M.	928 N.E.2d 511	33
2010	Brobbey v. ENTERPRISE LEASING OF CHICAGO	935 N.E.2d 1084	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 51 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 is Michael M. Toomin on?: Michael M. Toomin is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

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15 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).