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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1956 / Served to 1973

Eugene F. Black

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Eugene F. Black was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1990
Tenure: 1956–1973 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Black authored 320 published opinions for the court (1956–1973), plus 98 dissents and 140 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Robinson (371 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. 297 of these were attributed to Black 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
1972	People v. Robinson· Dissent†	194 N.W.2d 709	371
1972	People v. Snow· Dissent†	194 N.W.2d 314	245
1972	People v. Jaworski· Dissent†	194 N.W.2d 868	227
1967	Clark v. Dalman· Concurrence†	150 N.W.2d 755	216
1964	Perin v. Peuler	130 N.W.2d 4	191
1972	Reich v. State Highway Department· Concurrence†	194 N.W.2d 700	176
1956	Kaminski v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad	79 N.W.2d 899	176
1971	Pompey v. General Motors Corp.· Concurrence†	189 N.W.2d 243	175
1967	People v. Liggett· Dissent†	148 N.W.2d 784	163
1973	People v. Chism· Dissent†	211 N.W.2d 193	158
1971	People v. Hampton· Dissent†	187 N.W.2d 404	150
1972	Plumley v. Klein· Dissent†	199 N.W.2d 169	144
1965	Felgner v. Anderson· Concurrence†	133 N.W.2d 136	143
1972	People v. Charles O. Williams· Dissent†	194 N.W.2d 337	142
1971	Howell v. Vito's Trucking and Excavating Co.· Concurrence†	191 N.W.2d 313	140

Showing the 15 most-cited of 559 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 Eugene F. Black on?: Eugene F. Black was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).