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 1974 / Served to 1986

Glenn S. Allen Jr.

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Glenn S. Allen Jr. was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1974–1986 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Allen authored 489 published opinions for the court (1974–1996), plus 26 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Sventko v. Kroger Co. (184 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. 376 of these were attributed to Allen 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
1976	Sventko v. Kroger Co.· Concurrence†	245 N.W.2d 151	184
1975	Kangas v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.†	235 N.W.2d 42	115
1980	People v. Drossart†	297 N.W.2d 863	88
1984	Duvall v. Goldin†	362 N.W.2d 275	73
1987	People v. Furman	404 N.W.2d 246	68
1984	Trepel v. Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital	354 N.W.2d 341	61
1974	Meyering v. Russell	220 N.W.2d 121	56
1981	Charter Township of Pittsfield v. City of Saline	302 N.W.2d 608	54
1975	Williams v. Detroit Edison Co.†	234 N.W.2d 702	51
1974	Braxton v. Litchalk†	223 N.W.2d 316	51
1986	In Re Kreft†	384 N.W.2d 843	49
1976	People v. Goodchild†	242 N.W.2d 465	49
1977	People v. Edgar†	255 N.W.2d 648	48
1976	Dooms v. Stewart Bolling & Co.†	241 N.W.2d 738	47
1979	Rowe v. Noren Pattern & Foundry Co.†	283 N.W.2d 713	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 533 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 Glenn S. Allen Jr. on?: Glenn S. Allen Jr. was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).