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 1966 / Served to 1972

Charles L. Levin

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Charles L. Levin was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1966–1972 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Levin authored 286 published opinions for the court (1967–1993), plus 67 dissents and 34 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Morrin (266 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. 248 of these were attributed to Levin 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
1971	People v. Morrin†	187 N.W.2d 434	266
1969	People v. Degraffenreid†	173 N.W.2d 317	235
1971	People v. Farrar†	193 N.W.2d 363	140
1971	Troppi v. Scarf†	187 N.W.2d 511	127
1970	Cova v. Harley Davidson Motor Co.†	182 N.W.2d 800	120
1972	People v. Davenport†	197 N.W.2d 521	84
1968	Warren Tool Co. v. Stephenson	161 N.W.2d 133	82
1970	People v. Kelley†	176 N.W.2d 435	66
1972	People v. Allen· Dissent†	197 N.W.2d 874	64
1971	People v. Adams†	192 N.W.2d 19	64
1968	People v. Stratton	164 N.W.2d 555	60
1972	Snider v. Bob Thibodeau Ford, Inc†	202 N.W.2d 727	59
1968	People v. Wichman	166 N.W.2d 298	57
1967	American Parts Co., Inc. v. American Arbitration Ass'n	154 N.W.2d 5	51
1968	People v. McDonald	163 N.W.2d 796	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 387 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 Charles L. Levin on?: Charles L. Levin was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).