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 2006 / Active

Deborah A. Servitto

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Deborah A. Servitto is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Servitto authored 13 published opinions for the court (2006–2017), plus 3 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Lanzo Construction Co. (126 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. 21 of these were attributed to Servitto 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
2007	People v. Lanzo Construction Co.†	726 N.W.2d 746	126
2014	Landin v. Healthsource Saginaw, Inc.†	305 Mich. App. 519	115
2007	Shulick v. Richards†	729 N.W.2d 533	77
2015	Varran v. Granneman†	312 Mich. App. 591	65
2009	Moser v. City of Detroit†	772 N.W.2d 823	59
2009	Capitol Properties Group, LLC v. 1247 Center Street, LLC†	770 N.W.2d 105	51
2007	In Re Baldwin Trust· Concurrence†	733 N.W.2d 419	49
2007	Royce v. Chatwell Club Apartments†	276 Mich. App. 389	30
2010	Ajax Paving Industries, Inc. v. Vanopdenbosch Construction Co.†	289 Mich. App. 639	28
2009	Teel v. Meredith†	774 N.W.2d 527	26
2014	People v. Smart†	304 Mich. App. 244	24
2015	in Re Mardigian Estate· Dissent†	312 Mich. App. 553	22
2006	Carter v. Ann Arbor City Attorney†	722 N.W.2d 243	18
2009	Shivers v. Schmiege· Concurrence†	776 N.W.2d 669	14
2014	Jesperson v. Auto Club Insurance· Dissent†	306 Mich. App. 632	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 21 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 is Deborah A. Servitto on?: Deborah A. Servitto is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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20 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).