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 1992 / Served to 1997

Clifford W. Taylor

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Clifford W. Taylor was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–1997 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 117 published opinions for the court (1992–1997), plus 18 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Meagher v. Wayne State University (224 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. 138 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
1997	Meagher v. Wayne State University†	565 N.W.2d 401	224
1996	People v. Ullah†	216 Mich. App. 669	161
1993	Libralter Plastics, Inc v. Chubb Group of Insurance Companies· Dissent†	502 N.W.2d 742	86
1995	Payton v. City of Detroit†	536 N.W.2d 233	84
1997	Joerger v. Gordon Food Service, Inc· Concurrence†	568 N.W.2d 365	75
1997	Draggoo v. Draggoo†	566 N.W.2d 642	74
1997	People v. Messenger†	561 N.W.2d 463	63
1997	People v. Pitts†	564 N.W.2d 93	56
1996	People v. Poole†	555 N.W.2d 485	42
1994	McGill v. Auto Ass'n of Mich	526 N.W.2d 12	42
1997	Pontiac School District v. Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone†	563 N.W.2d 693	39
1995	Hayes v. Hayes†	532 N.W.2d 190	39
1996	Hunt v. Freeman†	550 N.W.2d 817	38
1995	People v. Hess†	543 N.W.2d 332	38
1997	Blair v. Checker Cab Co.†	558 N.W.2d 439	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 144 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 Clifford W. Taylor on?: Clifford W. Taylor 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).