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 2009 / Served to 2011

Sebastian Patti

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Sebastian Patti was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2009–2011 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Patti authored 10 published opinions for the court (2009–2010). Most cited: U.S. Bank v. Lindsey (101 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. 2 of these were attributed to Patti 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
2009	U.S. Bank v. Lindsey	920 N.E.2d 515	101
2010	Doornbos Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. v. Schlenker	932 N.E.2d 1073	35
2009	Madigan Ex Rel. Department of Healthcare & Family Services v. Yballe	920 N.E.2d 1112	18
2010	People v. Rush	928 N.E.2d 157	16
2009	People v. Williams	917 N.E.2d 547	11
2010	Board of Education, Proviso Township High School District No. 209 v. Jackson†	401 Ill. App. 3d 24	10
2010	People v. Primbas	936 N.E.2d 1088	8
2010	Tannehill v. Costello†	401 Ill. App. 3d 39	4
2010	Tannehill v. Costello	929 N.E.2d 89	1
2010	People v. Parks	934 N.E.2d 582	0

Showing the 10 most-cited of 10 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 Sebastian Patti on?: Sebastian Patti was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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2 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).