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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1960 / Served to 1969

Roy Solfisburg Jr.

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Roy Solfisburg Jr. was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–1991
Tenure: 1960–1969 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Solfisburg authored 260 published opinions for the court (1959–1971), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Elfman v. Evanston Bus Co. (204 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. 102 of these were attributed to Solfisburg 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
1963	Elfman v. Evanston Bus Co.	190 N.E.2d 348	204
1962	The People v. Wallenberg	181 N.E.2d 143	172
1967	People Ex Rel. General Motors Corp. v. Bua	226 N.E.2d 6	168
1968	Flynn v. Vancil	242 N.E.2d 237	141
1967	The People v. Fosdick†	224 N.E.2d 242	138
1968	Zeinfeld v. Hayes Freight Lines, Inc.†	243 N.E.2d 217	117
1965	The People v. Blanchett†	212 N.E.2d 97	110
1966	The People v. Watson	221 N.E.2d 645	106
1961	The People v. Strong	172 N.E.2d 765	106
1962	Caley v. Manicke· Dissent†	182 N.E.2d 206	104
1969	The People v. Cagle	244 N.E.2d 200	96
1964	The PEOPLE v. Miller	195 N.E.2d 694	91
1966	Sommese v. Maling Bros., Inc.	222 N.E.2d 468	85
1964	The People v. Ryan†	197 N.E.2d 15	83
1965	Schulenburg v. Signatrol, Inc.	212 N.E.2d 865	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 263 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 Roy Solfisburg Jr. on?: Roy Solfisburg Jr. was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

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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).