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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1997 / Served to 2008

Clifford W. Taylor

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Clifford W. Taylor was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1997–2008 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Education

George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 133 published opinions for the court (1997–2008), plus 13 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Lukity (887 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. 33 of these were attributed to Taylor 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	People v. Lukity	596 N.W.2d 607	887
2000	Robinson v. City of Detroit	613 N.W.2d 307	662
2002	People v. Hardiman	646 N.W.2d 158	576
2001	Lugo v. Ameritech Corp., Inc.	629 N.W.2d 384	474
2008	Smith v. Khouri†	751 N.W.2d 472	455
2008	Walters v. Nadell· Concurrence†	751 N.W.2d 431	431
1998	People v. Graves	581 N.W.2d 229	425
2004	Adair v. State	680 N.W.2d 386	409
2003	Wilkie v. Auto-Owners Insurance	664 N.W.2d 776	397
1999	Henderson v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	596 N.W.2d 190	300
2008	Latham v. Barton Malow Co.	746 N.W.2d 868	288
2004	People v. Grant· Concurrence†	684 N.W.2d 686	281
2006	People v. Gillis· Concurrence†	712 N.W.2d 419	274
2007	Rowland v. Washtenaw County Road Commission	731 N.W.2d 41	272
2000	People v. Kazmierczak	605 N.W.2d 667	230

Showing the 15 most-cited of 161 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 Clifford W. Taylor on?: Clifford W. Taylor was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 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).