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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1934 / Served to 1957

Edward M. Sharpe

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Edward M. Sharpe was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1975
Tenure: 1934–1957 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sharpe authored 1,822 published opinions for the court (1923–1958), plus 125 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Dellabonda (154 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. 98 of these were attributed to Sharpe 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
1933	People v. Dellabonda· Dissent	251 N.W. 594	154
1942	People v. Becker	2 N.W.2d 503	110
1924	McIntosh v. Groomes	198 N.W. 954	94
1929	City of Wakefield v. Globe Indemnity Co.· Separate	225 N.W. 643	90
1956	Johnson v. Johnson	78 N.W.2d 216	86
1935	Gledhill v. Fisher & Co.· Dissent	262 N.W. 371	75
1935	Toan v. McGinn	260 N.W. 108	72
1929	People v. Palm	223 N.W. 67	72
1951	Coffman v. State Board of Examiners in Optometry	50 N.W.2d 322	71
1957	Moore v. Palmer	86 N.W.2d 585	67
1948	City of Detroit v. Detroit Commercial College	33 N.W.2d 737	66
1947	People v. Delano	28 N.W.2d 909	64
1945	People v. Fox	20 N.W.2d 732	61
1946	People v. Ignofo	24 N.W.2d 514	59
1952	Denny v. Garavaglia	52 N.W.2d 521	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,003 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 was Edward M. Sharpe on?: Edward M. Sharpe was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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23 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).