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 1997 / Served to 2006

Hilda R. Gage

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Hilda R. Gage was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–2006 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gage authored 64 published opinions for the court (1997–2005), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Howard (151 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. 69 of these were attributed to Gage 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
1998	People v. Howard†	575 N.W.2d 16	151
2002	People v. Hornsby†	650 N.W.2d 700	146
2001	People v. Schultz†	635 N.W.2d 491	77
1999	Beulah Hoagland Appleton Qualified Personal Residence Trust v. Emmet County Road Commission†	600 N.W.2d 698	69
1999	People v. Crawford†	591 N.W.2d 669	59
2004	Merkur Steel Supply, Inc v. City of Detroit†	680 N.W.2d 485	58
2005	People v. Apgar†	690 N.W.2d 312	57
1998	Professional Rehabilitation Associates v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance†	577 N.W.2d 909	57
2000	Plymouth Canton Community Crier, Inc v. Prose†	619 N.W.2d 725	56
1998	Farm Credit Services v. Weldon†	232 Mich. App. 662	56
1998	People v. Lyon†	577 N.W.2d 124	54
1998	Kuhn v. Secretary of State†	579 N.W.2d 101	53
2002	Heltzel v. Heltzel†	638 N.W.2d 123	52
2002	Bloomfield Charter Township v. Oakland County Clerk†	654 N.W.2d 610	50
2001	People v. Coy†	620 N.W.2d 888	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 71 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 Hilda R. Gage on?: Hilda R. Gage was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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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).