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 1975 / Served to 1988

Daniel F. Walsh

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Daniel F. Walsh was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1975–1988 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Walsh authored 254 published opinions for the court (1975–1988), plus 25 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Wilkins (96 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. 218 of these were attributed to Walsh 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
1978	People v. Wilkins†	266 N.W.2d 781	96
1976	Shepard Marine Construction Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co.	250 N.W.2d 541	71
1976	People v. Fountain†	248 N.W.2d 589	69
1975	Borman's, Inc. v. Lake State Development Co.†	230 N.W.2d 363	69
1986	New Hampshire Insurance Group v. Labombard†	399 N.W.2d 527	52
1977	King v. Director of the Midland County Department of Social Services†	251 N.W.2d 270	52
1975	Bahr v. Bahr†	230 N.W.2d 430	51
1982	Fisher v. Fisher†	324 N.W.2d 582	45
1978	Hill v. Sullivan Equipment Co.· Dissent†	273 N.W.2d 527	44
1975	People v. Berthiaume†	229 N.W.2d 497	43
1980	Fry v. Ionia Sentinel-Standard†	300 N.W.2d 687	40
1980	Heilman v. Heilman†	291 N.W.2d 183	39
1977	People v. Herbert Ross	252 N.W.2d 526	39
1977	People v. Spry†	254 N.W.2d 782	35
1983	Skinner v. DME CORPORATION†	335 N.W.2d 90	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 295 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 Daniel F. Walsh on?: Daniel F. Walsh was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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13 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).