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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1970 / Served to 1987

G. Mennen Williams

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

G. Mennen Williams was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–1988
Tenure: 1970–1987 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Williams authored 205 published opinions for the court (1971–1986), plus 29 dissents and 102 concurrences. Most cited: Shavers v. Attorney General (539 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. 148 of these were attributed to Williams 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
1978	Shavers v. Attorney General	267 N.W.2d 72	539
1980	People v. Aaron· Concurrence†	299 N.W.2d 304	413
1979	Placek v. City of Sterling Heights	275 N.W.2d 511	391
1974	People v. Jackson· Concurrence†	217 N.W.2d 22	357
1985	Roberts v. Auto-Owners Insurance· Concurrence†	374 N.W.2d 905	347
1973	People v. Anderson	205 N.W.2d 461	325
1976	Hi-Way Motor Co. v. International Harvester Co.· Concurrence†	247 N.W.2d 813	312
1975	People v. Ora Jones· Concurrence†	236 N.W.2d 461	308
1973	Rizzo v. Kretschmer	207 N.W.2d 316	280
1976	Turner v. Bituminous Casualty Co.	244 N.W.2d 873	264
1975	People v. Reed	224 N.W.2d 867	263
1982	Raska v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance· Dissent†	314 N.W.2d 440	258
1971	Traverse City School Dist. v. Atty. Gen.	185 N.W.2d 9	231
1972	People v. Jaworski	194 N.W.2d 868	227
1982	People v. Golochowicz· Concurrence†	319 N.W.2d 518	220

Showing the 15 most-cited of 336 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 G. Mennen Williams on?: G. Mennen Williams 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).