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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1973 / Served to 1996

Charles Levin

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Charles Levin was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1926 · age 100
Tenure: 1973–1996 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Levin authored 278 published opinions for the court (1973–1996), plus 205 dissents and 130 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Ginther (2,467 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. 358 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
1973	People v. Ginther	212 N.W.2d 922	2,467
1994	Skinner v. Square D Co.· Dissent†	516 N.W.2d 475	842
1996	Quinto v. Cross and Peters Co.· Dissent†	547 N.W.2d 314	841
1980	Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield	292 N.W.2d 880	786
1994	People v. Pickens· Concurrence†	521 N.W.2d 797	763
1995	People v. Bahoda· Dissent†	531 N.W.2d 659	724
1985	Ross v. Consumers Power Co.· Dissent†	363 N.W.2d 641	716
1977	Moning v. Alfono	254 N.W.2d 759	497
1979	People v. Hampton· Concurrence†	285 N.W.2d 284	474
1976	People v. Garcia· Dissent†	247 N.W.2d 547	357
1974	People v. Jackson	217 N.W.2d 22	357
1992	Riddle v. McLouth Steel Products Corp.· Dissent†	485 N.W.2d 676	327
1994	People v. Grant· Concurrence†	520 N.W.2d 123	296
1995	Bertrand v. Alan Ford, Inc.· Dissent†	537 N.W.2d 185	276
1992	Auto-Owners Insurance v. Churchman· Dissent†	489 N.W.2d 431	271

Showing the 15 most-cited of 613 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 was Charles Levin on?: Charles Levin was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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23 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).