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 2006 / Active

Vicki Wright

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Vicki Wright is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wright authored 138 published opinions for the court (1957–2018), plus 5 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Jackson (88 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. 28 of these were attributed to Wright 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
2007	People v. Jackson· Concurrence†	874 N.E.2d 592	88
1963	Zide v. Jewel Tea Co.	188 N.E.2d 383	45
2008	In re B.B. and A.T.†	386 Ill. App. 3d 686	43
1958	Madison v. Wigal	153 N.E.2d 90	33
2011	People v. Connolly· Dissent†	942 N.E.2d 71	31
2010	People v. Nesbit	924 N.E.2d 517	30
1964	Miller v. Madison County Mutual Automobile Insurance	197 N.E.2d 153	29
1960	Meihsner v. Runyon	163 N.E.2d 236	28
2008	People v. Elizabeth L.†	384 Ill. App. 3d 689	26
1959	Hanaman v. Davis	155 N.E.2d 344	26
1971	Thompson v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.	148 N.E.2d 9	25
1964	Cook v. Suburban Casualty Co.	203 N.E.2d 748	25
1961	Withey v. Illinois Power Co.	177 N.E.2d 254	25
1960	Simaitis v. Thrash	166 N.E.2d 306	25
1964	Child v. Lincoln Enterprises, Inc.	200 N.E.2d 751	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 Vicki Wright on?: Vicki Wright is a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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19 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).