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 2010 / Active

Terrence J. Lavin

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Terrence J. Lavin is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lavin authored 34 published opinions for the court (2010–2018), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: People v. Henderson (56 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. 7 of these were attributed to Lavin 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
2011	People v. Henderson	961 N.E.2d 407	56
2010	People v. Smith	941 N.E.2d 975	49
2011	Maggi v. RAS Development, Inc.	949 N.E.2d 731	47
2010	People v. Davis†	405 Ill. App. 3d 585	45
2010	People v. Debra J.†	403 Ill. App. 3d 875	36
2010	Stapleton Ex Rel. Clark v. Moore· Dissent†	932 N.E.2d 487	35
2010	People v. Shelton	929 N.E.2d 144	34
2011	RBS Citizens, National Ass'n v. RTG-Oak Lawn, LLC†	407 Ill. App. 3d 183	31
2010	Ruff v. SPLICE, INC.	923 N.E.2d 1250	31
2011	SK Partners I, LP v. Metro Consultants, Inc.	944 N.E.2d 414	26
2011	Seip v. Rogers Raw Materials Fund, L.P.	948 N.E.2d 628	25
2011	Stone v. Paddock Publications, Inc.	961 N.E.2d 380	24
2010	Rivera v. Garcia	927 N.E.2d 1235	23
2010	Wilson v. Humana Hospital	926 N.E.2d 821	22
2010	People v. Mabry	926 N.E.2d 732	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 35 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 Terrence J. Lavin on?: Terrence J. Lavin is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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16 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).