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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 2002 / Served to 2004

Philip J. Rarick

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Philip J. Rarick was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2004 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rarick authored 37 published opinions for the court (2002–2004), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Feltmeier v. Feltmeier (447 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. 12 of these were attributed to Rarick 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
2003	Feltmeier v. Feltmeier	798 N.E.2d 75	447
2004	People v. Johnson	803 N.E.2d 405	353
2004	People v. Greer	817 N.E.2d 511	350
2004	People v. Flowers	802 N.E.2d 1174	336
2004	Sullivan v. Edward Hospital· Concurrence†	806 N.E.2d 645	270
2004	People v. Morgan	817 N.E.2d 524	258
2003	People v. Rissley· Dissent†	795 N.E.2d 174	236
2004	Metzger v. DaRosa· Dissent†	805 N.E.2d 1165	183
2004	People v. Braggs	810 N.E.2d 472	173
2004	People v. Jones	809 N.E.2d 1233	172
2004	In Re Marriage of Rogers	820 N.E.2d 386	166
2004	People v. Lawton	818 N.E.2d 326	153
2004	Ferguson v. City of Chicago	820 N.E.2d 455	150
2004	Borowiec v. GATEWAY 2000, INC.· Dissent†	808 N.E.2d 957	144
2004	People v. Huddleston	816 N.E.2d 322	139

Showing the 15 most-cited of 44 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 Philip J. Rarick on?: Philip J. Rarick was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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2 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).