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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Appellate Court of Illinois / Joined 2001 / Active

Peter Grometer

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Peter Grometer is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grometer authored 181 published opinions for the court (2001–2008), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Village of South Elgin v. Waste Management of Illinois, Inc. (84 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. 26 of these were attributed to Grometer 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
2004	Village of South Elgin v. Waste Management of Illinois, Inc.	810 N.E.2d 658	84
2001	People v. Contorno	750 N.E.2d 290	60
2001	Cabrera v. FIRST NAT. BANK OF WHEATON	753 N.E.2d 1138	58
2002	Premier Title Co. v. Donahue	765 N.E.2d 513	56
2006	In Re Commitment of Sandry	857 N.E.2d 295	53
2007	Westin Hotel v. INDUS. COM'N OF ILLINOIS	865 N.E.2d 342	50
2005	People v. Mitchell	824 N.E.2d 642	49
2004	People v. Peco	803 N.E.2d 561	49
2001	Viktron Limted Partnership v. Program Data Inc.	759 N.E.2d 186	47
2006	People v. Sven	848 N.E.2d 228	46
2001	Prairie v. Snow Valley Health Resources, Inc.	755 N.E.2d 1021	45
2001	Fiumetto v. Garrett Enterprises, Inc.	749 N.E.2d 992	45
2002	In Re Marriage of Ackerley	775 N.E.2d 1045	44
2006	Carey v. Richards Building Supply Co.	856 N.E.2d 24	40
2001	In Re Marriage of Schmitt	747 N.E.2d 524	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 186 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 Peter Grometer on?: Peter Grometer is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

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25 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).