How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 1979 / Served to 1999

Barbara B. Mackenzie

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Barbara B. Mackenzie was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1999 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mackenzie authored 319 published opinions for the court (1979–1999), plus 63 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Novak v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance (150 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. 298 of these were attributed to Mackenzie 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
1999	Novak v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance†	599 N.W.2d 546	150
1983	United States Aviex Co. v. Travelers Insurance	336 N.W.2d 838	102
1994	Nieves v. Bell Industries, Inc†	517 N.W.2d 235	78
1986	Dzierwa v. Michigan Oil Co.†	393 N.W.2d 610	65
1995	People v. Corteway†	538 N.W.2d 60	62
1990	Stanton v. Dachille· Dissent†	463 N.W.2d 479	54
1995	People v. Effinger†	536 N.W.2d 809	52
1987	Knoblauch v. Kenyon†	415 N.W.2d 286	48
1990	Hill v. Kokosky†	463 N.W.2d 265	47
1982	People v. Turner	328 N.W.2d 5	46
1979	Rowe v. Noren Pattern & Foundry Co.· Dissent†	283 N.W.2d 713	45
1983	Bonney v. the Upjohn Company· Concurrence†	342 N.W.2d 551	42
1985	In Re Colon†	377 N.W.2d 321	39
1992	In Re Rosebush†	491 N.W.2d 633	38
1995	West Michigan Dock & Market Corp. v. Lakeland Investments†	534 N.W.2d 212	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 406 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 Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Barbara B. Mackenzie on?: Barbara B. Mackenzie was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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20 years on the Michigan Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).