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

Jane E. Markey

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Jane E. Markey is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, 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, Markey authored 102 published opinions for the court (1995–2018), plus 10 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Benton (427 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. 119 of these were attributed to Markey 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
2011	People v. Benton†	294 Mich. App. 191	427
2005	Reed v. Reed†	693 N.W.2d 825	380
2013	Gorman v. American Honda Motor Co.†	302 Mich. App. 113	298
2012	People v. King†	297 Mich. App. 465	269
2003	Lewis v. LeGrow†	670 N.W.2d 675	253
2004	Burkhardt v. Bailey†	680 N.W.2d 453	242
2013	People v. Fomby†	300 Mich. App. 46	194
2007	People v. Schumacher†	740 N.W.2d 534	176
2008	Mettler Walloon, LLC v. Melrose Township	761 N.W.2d 293	160
2011	People v. Danto†	294 Mich. App. 596	136
2015	People v. Ackah-Essien†	311 Mich. App. 13	122
2011	Hardrick v. Auto Club Insurance· Concurrence†	294 Mich. App. 651	96
1999	Badalamenti v. William Beaumont Hospital-Troy†	602 N.W.2d 854	96
2016	People v. Clark†	315 Mich. App. 219	94
2018	In re Keillor· Dissent†	923 N.W.2d 617	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 120 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 E. Markey on?: Jane E. Markey 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).