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 1973 / Served to 1982

George N. Bashara Jr.

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

George N. Bashara Jr. was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1973–1982 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bashara authored 299 published opinions for the court (1973–1982), plus 40 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Todd v. Biglow (113 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. 309 of these were attributed to Bashara 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
1974	Todd v. Biglow†	214 N.W.2d 733	113
1975	Allen v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.†	232 N.W.2d 302	62
1977	People v. Till†	263 N.W.2d 586	58
1979	Cook v. Bennett· Concurrence†	288 N.W.2d 609	53
1981	Brown v. Siang†	309 N.W.2d 575	49
1979	People v. Sturdivant	283 N.W.2d 669	42
1976	O'Donnell v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance· Dissent†	245 N.W.2d 801	38
1976	Witucke v. Presque Isle Bank†	243 N.W.2d 907	38
1978	Bellarmine Hills Ass'n v. Residential Systems Co.†	269 N.W.2d 673	37
1974	Brown Bros. Equipment Co. v. State Highway Commission†	215 N.W.2d 591	35
1978	People v. Dixon· Dissent†	271 N.W.2d 196	33
1979	Smith v. Robbins†	283 N.W.2d 725	32
1978	People v. Wilder†	266 N.W.2d 847	32
1980	Rivers v. Ex-Cell-O Corp.· Concurrence†	300 N.W.2d 420	30
1978	Fletcher v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.†	264 N.W.2d 19	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 362 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 was George N. Bashara Jr. on?: George N. Bashara Jr. was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

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9 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).