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 1994 / Active

Henry William Saad

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Henry William Saad is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals (30 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1994 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Saad authored 219 published opinions for the court (1995–2017), plus 14 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Knapp (254 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. 234 of these were attributed to Saad 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
2001	People v. Knapp†	624 N.W.2d 227	254
2012	Buhalis v. Trinity Continuing Care Services†	296 Mich. App. 685	242
2010	Woodington v. Shokoohi†	288 Mich. App. 352	238
2004	Tarlea v. Crabtree†	687 N.W.2d 333	177
2007	Coates v. Bastian Brothers, Inc· Concurrence†	741 N.W.2d 539	175
2007	People v. Taylor†	737 N.W.2d 790	165
2004	People v. McPherson†	687 N.W.2d 370	161
2005	Badiee v. Brighton Area Schools†	695 N.W.2d 521	107
2015	People v. Daniels†	311 Mich. App. 257	99
2011	People v. Nunley· Dissent†	294 Mich. App. 274	97
2014	Hodge v. Parks†	303 Mich. App. 552	95
1999	Rembert v. Ryan’s Family Steak Houses, Inc†	596 N.W.2d 208	79
2015	PEOPLE v. McFALL†	309 Mich. App. 377	76
2010	McGrath v. Allstate Insurance†	290 Mich. App. 434	74
1998	People v. Ho†	585 N.W.2d 357	73

Showing the 15 most-cited of 243 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 is Henry William Saad on?: Henry William Saad is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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32 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).