Illinois Circuit Court Judges

First Judicial Circuit

January 7, 1835 – March 1837

Stephen T. Logan

March 20, 1837 – July 20, 1837

William Brown

July 20, 1837 – February 1839

Jesse B. Thomas Jr.

February 25, 1839 – 1841 (reorganization of judiciary)

William Thomas

Eighth Judicial Circuit

February 29, 1839

Stephen T. Logan (declined to serve)

March Term, 1839

William Thomas

May 27, 1839 – November 1848

Samuel H. Treat

December 4, 1848 – November 1, 1862

David Davis

Eighteenth Judicial Circuit

April 13, 1857 – August 20, 1870

Edward Y. Rice

Citation: Frederic B. Crossley, Courts and Lawyers of Illinois (Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1916), 399-404.