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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 2011 / Active

Bridget McCormack

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Bridget McCormack is a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (5 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Education

New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, McCormack authored 28 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 13 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Lockridge (1,872 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. 56 of these were attributed to McCormack 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
2015	People v. Lockridge†	498 Mich. 358	1,872
2013	People v. Hardy; People v. Glenn· Concurrence†	494 Mich. 430	1,181
2014	People v. Douglas†	496 Mich. 557	573
2014	In re Sanders†	495 Mich. 394	469
2014	People v. Chenault†	495 Mich. 142	338
2018	People of Michigan v. Christopher Allan Oros· Dissent†	917 N.W.2d 559	326
2013	People of Michigan v. Stanley G Duncan· Concurrence†	494 Mich. 713	291
2015	People v. Ackley†	497 Mich. 381	252
2015	People v. Jackson†	498 Mich. 246	225
2016	Innovation Ventures v. Liquid Manufacturing†	499 Mich. 491	217
2013	People v. Burns†	494 Mich. 104	206
2016	Hecht v. National Heritage Academies, Inc· Concurrence†	499 Mich. 586	164
2013	Bailey v. Schaaf· Concurrence†	494 Mich. 595	164
2013	in Re Bradley Estate· Dissent†	494 Mich. 367	136
2015	People v. Smith†	498 Mich. 466	129

Showing the 15 most-cited of 56 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 Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Bridget McCormack on?: Bridget McCormack is a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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