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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 2013 / Active

David Viviano

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

David Viviano is a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (5 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College

Judicial Record

In our data, Viviano authored 26 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 7 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Hardy; People v. Glenn (1,181 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. 41 of these were attributed to Viviano 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
2013	People v. Hardy; People v. Glenn†	494 Mich. 430	1,181
2014	People v. Douglas· Concurrence†	496 Mich. 557	573
2017	People v. Randolph†	917 N.W.2d 249	340
2016	Pirgu v. United Services Automobile Association†	499 Mich. 269	213
2016	Bank of America Na v. First American Title Insurance Company†	499 Mich. 74	173
2013	People v. Smith-Anthony†	494 Mich. 669	161
2015	People v. Cain· Dissent†	498 Mich. 108	149
2016	Ronnisch Construction Group, Inc v. Lofts on the Nine, LLC†	499 Mich. 544	131
2015	People v. Miller†	498 Mich. 13	105
2014	Madugula v. Taub†	496 Mich. 685	87
2018	People of Michigan v. Johnny Ray Kennedy†	917 N.W.2d 355	83
2018	People v. Pinkney†	912 N.W.2d 535	80
2014	People v. Jones· Concurrence†	497 Mich. 155	64
2014	Speicher v. Columbia Township Board of Trustees†	497 Mich. 125	64
2014	International Business MacHines Corp. v. Department of Treasury†	496 Mich. 642	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 is David Viviano on?: David Viviano is a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).