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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1931 / Served to 1940

Norman L. Jones

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Norman L. Jones was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1931. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1870–1940
Tenure: 1931–1940 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1931	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 352 published opinions for the court (1931–1967), plus 12 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: People Ex Rel. Eitel v. Lindheimer (154 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. 8 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1939	People Ex Rel. Eitel v. Lindheimer	21 N.E.2d 318	154
1935	Wintersteen v. National Cooperage & Woodenware Co.	197 N.E. 578	133
1935	People Ex Rel. Nelson v. Wiersema State Bank	197 N.E. 537	92
1936	Neff v. George	4 N.E.2d 388	91
1933	Winter v. Barrett· Concurrence	186 N.E. 113	90
1936	The People v. Braune	2 N.E.2d 839	79
1934	Fenske Bros. v. Upholsterers International Union of North America, Local No. 18	193 N.E. 112	79
1931	Graham v. City of Chicago	178 N.E. 911	76
1938	Metropolitan Trust Co. v. Bowman Dairy Co.	15 N.E.2d 838	74
1935	The People v. Touhy	197 N.E. 849	71
1938	Blakeslee's Storage Warehouses, Inc. v. City of Chicago	17 N.E.2d 1	67
1936	Ziraldo v. W. J. Lynch Co.	6 N.E.2d 125	64
1937	Raines v. Board of Trustees Pen. Fund	7 N.E.2d 489	62
1940	Novicki v. Department of Finance	26 N.E.2d 130	60
1939	Cottrell v. Gerson	20 N.E.2d 74	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 370 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 Norman L. Jones on?: Norman L. Jones was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).