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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1994 / Served to 2010

Elizabeth A. Weaver

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Elizabeth A. Weaver was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1994. She previously served on the Michigan Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–
1994	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Weaver authored 305 published opinions for the court (1987–2010), plus 82 dissents and 156 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Babcock (930 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. 319 of these were attributed to Weaver 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
2003	People v. Babcock· Concurrence†	666 N.W.2d 231	930
2000	People v. Carter	612 N.W.2d 144	856
2005	Rory v. Continental Insurance· Dissent†	703 N.W.2d 23	747
2000	In Re Trejo Minors	612 N.W.2d 407	668
2003	Klapp v. United Insurance Group Agency, Inc· Concurrence†	468 Mich. 459	660
2010	In Re Mason· Dissent†	782 N.W.2d 747	658
2006	Maldonado v. Ford Motor Co.· Dissent†	719 N.W.2d 809	538
2001	Lugo v. Ameritech Corp., Inc.· Concurrence†	629 N.W.2d 384	474
2008	Walters v. Nadell· Concurrence†	751 N.W.2d 431	431
2003	Wilkie v. Auto-Owners Insurance· Concurrence†	664 N.W.2d 776	397
2009	In Re Rood· Concurrence†	763 N.W.2d 587	364
2008	People v. Smith· Dissent†	754 N.W.2d 284	356
2010	McCORMICK v. CARRIER· Concurrence†	487 Mich. 180	340
2010	People v. Feezel· Concurrence†	783 N.W.2d 67	329
2002	People v. Cornell	646 N.W.2d 127	323

Showing the 15 most-cited of 543 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 Elizabeth A. Weaver on?: Elizabeth A. Weaver was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).