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 2007 / Active

Elizabeth L. Gleicher

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Elizabeth L. Gleicher is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gleicher authored 57 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 13 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Williams (385 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. 87 of these were attributed to Gleicher 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
2009	In Re Williams· Concurrence†	779 N.W.2d 286	385
2014	People v. Lopez· Concurrence†	305 Mich. App. 686	278
2010	Dalley v. Dykema Gossett PLLC	788 N.W.2d 679	250
2015	PEOPLE v. McCHESTER· Concurrence†	310 Mich. App. 354	214
2016	People v. Shaw· Concurrence†	315 Mich. App. 668	172
2015	Demski v. Petlick· Dissent†	309 Mich. App. 404	147
2011	People v. Danto· Concurrence†	294 Mich. App. 596	136
2008	Zaremba Equipment, Inc. v. Harco National Insurance†	761 N.W.2d 151	130
2008	Holmes v. Holmes†	760 N.W.2d 300	127
2011	People v. Barbarich· Dissent†	291 Mich. App. 468	105
2013	Lenawee County v. Wagley†	301 Mich. App. 134	101
2011	Hardrick v. Auto Club Insurance†	294 Mich. App. 651	96
2009	People v. Murphy (On Remand)†	766 N.W.2d 303	75
2009	In Re Nestorovski Estate†	769 N.W.2d 720	71
2010	Alpha Capital Management, Inc. v. Rentenbach†	287 Mich. App. 589	68

Showing the 15 most-cited of 89 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 Elizabeth L. Gleicher on?: Elizabeth L. Gleicher is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).