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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1906 / Served to 1924

Orrin N. Carter

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Orrin N. Carter was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1906. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1854–1928
Tenure: 1906–1924 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1906	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Wheaton College

Judicial Record

In our data, Carter authored 912 published opinions for the court (1897–1962), plus 42 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Gerold (151 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. 965 of these were attributed to Carter 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
1914	People v. Gerold†	265 Ill. 448	151
1911	People v. Jennings†	252 Ill. 534	141
1917	Golden v. Cervenka· Dissent†	278 Ill. 409	136
1917	Eugene Dietzen Co. v. Industrial Board†	279 Ill. 11	109
1917	Ohio Building Safety Vault Co. v. Industrial Board†	277 Ill. 96	105
1908	Yarber v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co.· Concurrence†	235 Ill. 589	88
1915	Uphoff v. Industrial Board†	271 Ill. 312	82
1914	People v. Pfanschmidt†	262 Ill. 411	80
1908	Bond v. Moore· Dissent†	236 Ill. 576	80
1914	Hoyne v. Danisch†	264 Ill. 467	79
1921	Prall v. Burckhartt†	299 Ill. 19	72
1921	People v. Willy†	301 Ill. 307	69
1917	Wylie v. Bushnell†	277 Ill. 484	63
1913	Johnston v. City of Chicago†	258 Ill. 494	63
1912	Purtell v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.†	256 Ill. 110	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 969 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 Orrin N. Carter on?: Orrin N. Carter was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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18 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).