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 2002

Donald E. Holbrook Jr.

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Donald E. Holbrook Jr. was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1975–2002 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Holbrook authored 950 published opinions for the court (1965–2001), plus 71 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: UAW-GM Human Resource Center v. KSL Recreation Corp. (238 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. 546 of these were attributed to Holbrook 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
1998	UAW-GM Human Resource Center v. KSL Recreation Corp.· Dissent†	579 N.W.2d 411	238
1976	Sventko v. Kroger Co.†	245 N.W.2d 151	184
2000	Phillips v. Jordan· Dissent†	614 N.W.2d 183	129
1997	Boyd v. Civil Service Commission†	559 N.W.2d 342	102
1995	Triple E Produce Corp. v. Mastronardi Produce, Ltd.†	530 N.W.2d 772	92
1992	Admiral Insurance v. Columbia Casualty Insurance†	486 N.W.2d 351	92
1996	People v. Hubbard†	552 N.W.2d 493	77
1998	People v. Parcha· Dissent†	575 N.W.2d 316	76
1991	Thomas v. Leja†	468 N.W.2d 58	71
1987	People v. Taylor· Concurrence†	406 N.W.2d 859	70
1967	People v. Thomas	152 N.W.2d 166	65
1993	Lombardo v. Lombardo†	507 N.W.2d 788	60
1993	Duran v. Detroit News, Inc.†	504 N.W.2d 715	58
1977	People v. Sherman Hall	258 N.W.2d 517	56
1972	People v. Harper	204 N.W.2d 263	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,062 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 Donald E. Holbrook Jr. on?: Donald E. Holbrook Jr. was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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27 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).