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 1992 / Served to 1995

Helene N. White

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Helene N. White was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–1995 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, White authored 19 published opinions for the court (1993–2007), plus 1 dissent and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Cloverleaf Car Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. (80 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. 30 of these were attributed to White 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
1995	Cloverleaf Car Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.· Dissent†	540 N.W.2d 297	80
1995	Hanaway v. Hanaway†	527 N.W.2d 792	72
1994	People v. Hurst· Concurrence†	517 N.W.2d 858	47
1993	Barnell v. Taubman Co, Inc· Concurrence†	512 N.W.2d 13	44
1994	Scd Chemical Distributors, Inc v. Medley· Concurrence†	512 N.W.2d 86	31
1995	Boumelhem v. Bic Corp.· Concurrence†	535 N.W.2d 574	25
1995	Clement-Rowe v. Michigan Health Care Corp.· Concurrence†	212 Mich. App. 503	24
1993	People v. Siebert†	507 N.W.2d 211	24
2002	Wayne County Board of Commissioners v. Wayne County Airport Authority	658 N.W.2d 804	20
1997	People v. Riggs	568 N.W.2d 101	18
2006	Allard v. State Farm Ins. Co.	722 N.W.2d 268	16
1993	Butzer v. Camelot Hall Convalescent Centre, Inc.· Concurrence†	505 N.W.2d 862	16
1995	Barnes v. International Business MacHines Corp.· Concurrence†	537 N.W.2d 265	12
2007	Boodt v. Borgess Medical Center	728 N.W.2d 471	11
1994	Evans v. Hebert†	513 N.W.2d 164	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 34 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 Helene N. White on?: Helene N. White was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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3 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).