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 2009 / Active

Douglas B. Shapiro

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Douglas B. Shapiro is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals (30 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shapiro authored 41 published opinions for the court (2009–2018), plus 6 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Bennett (827 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. 56 of these were attributed to Shapiro 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
2010	People v. Bennett· Concurrence†	290 Mich. App. 465	827
2014	In re LaFrance Minors†	306 Mich. App. 713	271
2016	People v. Blevins· Dissent†	314 Mich. App. 339	241
2015	People v. Bailey†	310 Mich. App. 703	235
2016	People v. Shaw†	315 Mich. App. 668	172
2018	People of Michigan v. Dalton Duane Carll†	915 N.W.2d 387	113
2009	Taylor v. Kent Radiology, PC	780 N.W.2d 900	74
2010	People v. Terrell· Concurrence†	289 Mich. App. 553	66
2009	Fisher v. Blankenship	777 N.W.2d 469	57
2015	Adanalic v. Harco National Insurance Company†	309 Mich. App. 173	51
2009	State Treasurer v. Sprague· Concurrence†	772 N.W.2d 452	49
2009	People v. Billings†	770 N.W.2d 893	47
2009	Freed v. Salas†	780 N.W.2d 844	46
2010	McNeel v. Farm Bureau General Insurance†	289 Mich. App. 76	43
2018	People of Michigan v. Benjamin Keith McKewen†	926 N.W.2d 888	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 61 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 Douglas B. Shapiro on?: Douglas B. Shapiro is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).