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 1974 / Served to 1980

Richard Stengel

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Richard Stengel was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1974–1980 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stengel authored 401 published opinions for the court (1975–1980), plus 19 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Builder's Concrete v. Faubel & Sons, Inc. (49 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. 148 of these were attributed to Stengel 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
1978	Builder's Concrete v. Faubel & Sons, Inc.	373 N.E.2d 863	49
1975	Biehler v. White Metal Rolling & Stamping Corp.	333 N.E.2d 716	47
1977	Maynard v. Parker	369 N.E.2d 352	43
1975	People v. Marcisz	334 N.E.2d 737	38
1978	People v. Nichols· Concurrence†	377 N.E.2d 815	37
1978	People v. Spataro	384 N.E.2d 553	32
1976	People v. Henderson	348 N.E.2d 854	31
1976	People v. Bolton	343 N.E.2d 190	31
1977	Pillott v. Allstate Insurance Co.	363 N.E.2d 460	30
1978	People v. Vallero· Concurrence†	378 N.E.2d 549	29
1977	Harris v. American General Finance Corp.	368 N.E.2d 1099	29
1975	People v. Guppy	333 N.E.2d 576	29
1975	Elmore v. Blume	334 N.E.2d 431	29
1978	Oakview New Lenox School District No. 122 v. Ford Motor Co.	378 N.E.2d 544	28
1977	People v. Denwiddie	365 N.E.2d 978	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 431 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 was Richard Stengel on?: Richard Stengel was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

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6 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).