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 1970 / Served to 1980

William Guild

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

William Guild was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–1993
Tenure: 1970–1980 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Education

Northwestern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Guild authored 516 published opinions for the court (1971–1979), plus 8 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Alfred N. Koplin & Co. v. Chrysler Corp., Airtemp Division (54 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. 217 of these were attributed to Guild 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
1977	Alfred N. Koplin & Co. v. Chrysler Corp., Airtemp Division	364 N.E.2d 100	54
1979	Carey Electric Contracting, Inc. v. First National Bank	392 N.E.2d 759	53
1979	Geisberger v. Willuhn	390 N.E.2d 945	51
1974	People v. Overton	316 N.E.2d 201	51
1973	Tonchen v. All-Steel Equipment, Inc.	300 N.E.2d 616	46
1979	In Re Marriage of Smith	396 N.E.2d 859	44
1974	Yarc v. American Hospital Supply Corp.	307 N.E.2d 749	43
1979	Chrysler Corp. v. Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board	387 N.E.2d 351	41
1977	People v. Smith	367 N.E.2d 756	41
1975	Stanfield v. Medalist Industries, Inc.	340 N.E.2d 276	41
1979	Haas v. Cravatta	389 N.E.2d 226	40
1979	Mapes v. Kalva Corp.	386 N.E.2d 148	35
1979	Heaver v. Ward	386 N.E.2d 134	34
1977	Greig v. Griffel	364 N.E.2d 660	34
1973	In Re Annexation of Certain Territory of Darien	304 N.E.2d 769	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 526 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 William Guild on?: William Guild was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

Sources

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10 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).