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 2003 / Served to 2008

Bill Schuette

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Bill Schuette was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2008 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Schuette authored 17 published opinions for the court (2003–2008), plus 6 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Cline (279 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. 36 of these were attributed to Schuette 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. Cline†	741 N.W.2d 563	279
2004	People v. Dixon· Concurrence†	688 N.W.2d 308	279
2005	Laier v. Kitchen· Concurrence†	702 N.W.2d 199	111
2005	People v. Johnigan· Concurrence†	696 N.W.2d 724	84
2006	Oliver v. Smith· Concurrence†	715 N.W.2d 314	81
2007	Rooyakker & Sitz, PLLC v. Plante & Moran, PLLC†	742 N.W.2d 409	70
2003	Korth v. Korth· Dissent†	662 N.W.2d 111	61
2005	Hess v. Cannon Township†	696 N.W.2d 742	59
2004	Shepherd Montessori Center Milan v. Ann Arbor Charter Township†	675 N.W.2d 271	57
2004	Lme v. Ars· Concurrence†	680 N.W.2d 902	39
2008	Woodman v. KERA, LLC· Concurrence†	760 N.W.2d 641	31
2007	Royce v. Chatwell Club Apartments· Concurrence†	276 Mich. App. 389	30
2005	Scalise v. Boy Scouts of America†	692 N.W.2d 858	29
2004	Geralds v. Munson Healthcare†	673 N.W.2d 792	29
2003	Landon Holdings, Inc v. Grattan Township†	667 N.W.2d 93	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 36 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 Bill Schuette on?: Bill Schuette was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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5 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).