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 2007 / Active

Jane M. Beckering

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Jane M. Beckering is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals (30 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Beckering authored 19 published opinions for the court (2008–2018), plus 7 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Slaughter v. Blarney Castle Oil Co. (125 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. 36 of these were attributed to Beckering 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
2008	Slaughter v. Blarney Castle Oil Co.†	760 N.W.2d 287	125
2013	Thomas M Cooley Law School v. Doe 1· Concurrence†	300 Mich. App. 245	96
2013	Duncan v. State†	300 Mich. App. 176	95
2018	People of Michigan v. William Lawrence Rucker†	919 N.W.2d 802	81
2013	People v. Cortez· Dissent†	299 Mich. App. 679	66
2011	Lansing Schools Education Ass'n v. Lansing Board of Education· Concurrence†	293 Mich. App. 506	58
2016	People v. Hyatt†	316 Mich. App. 368	57
2013	Charles A. Murray Trust v. Futrell†	303 Mich. App. 28	54
2008	Smith v. Smith†	748 N.W.2d 258	46
2010	Packowski v. United Food & Commercial Workers Local 951· Dissent†	289 Mich. App. 132	44
2011	Luckow Estate v. Luckow†	291 Mich. App. 417	43
2010	Hadden v. McDermitt Apartments, LLC†	782 N.W.2d 800	39
2012	Edge v. Edge†	299 Mich. App. 121	38
2008	Walters v. Leech†	761 N.W.2d 143	36
2010	Blue Harvest, Inc. v. Department of Transportation· Concurrence†	288 Mich. App. 267	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 36 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 Jane M. Beckering on?: Jane M. Beckering is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).