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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1990 / Served to 1999

Conrad L. Mallett Jr.

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Conrad L. Mallett Jr. was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: 1990–1999 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Southern California

Judicial Record

In our data, Mallett authored 67 published opinions for the court (1991–1998), plus 15 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Pickens (763 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. 40 of these were attributed to Mallett 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
1994	People v. Pickens· Concurrence†	521 N.W.2d 797	763
1995	People v. Mills†	450 Mich. 61	537
1992	Riddle v. McLouth Steel Products Corp.	485 N.W.2d 676	327
1993	Farrington v. Total Petroleum, Inc.	501 N.W.2d 76	319
1994	Fletcher v. Fletcher· Concurrence†	526 N.W.2d 889	305
1993	Booth Newspapers, Inc v. University of Michigan Board of Regents	507 N.W.2d 422	278
1992	Auto-Owners Insurance v. Churchman	489 N.W.2d 431	271
1996	People v. Champion	549 N.W.2d 849	254
1998	Lytle v. Malady· Concurrence†	579 N.W.2d 906	253
1992	People v. Bullock· Concurrence†	485 N.W.2d 866	252
1993	House Speaker v. State Administrative Board· Concurrence†	495 N.W.2d 539	244
1996	Cain v Department of Corrections	548 N.W.2d 210	220
1995	People v. Peterson	450 Mich. 349	201
1996	Tryc v Michigan Veterans’ Facility	545 N.W.2d 642	200
1994	Gebhardt v. O'ROURKE	510 N.W.2d 900	199

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 Conrad L. Mallett Jr. on?: Conrad L. Mallett Jr. was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).