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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 1989 / Served to 2007

Janet T. Neff

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Janet T. Neff was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1989–2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Wayne State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Neff authored 175 published opinions for the court (1989–2007), plus 17 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Rodriguez (187 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. 213 of these were attributed to Neff 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
2002	People v. Rodriguez†	650 N.W.2d 96	187
2005	Laier v. Kitchen†	702 N.W.2d 199	111
2001	Dykes v. William Beaumont Hospital· Concurrence†	633 N.W.2d 440	108
1998	Reeves v. Reeves· Dissent†	575 N.W.2d 1	106
1996	Heinz v. Chicago Road Investment Co.· Concurrence†	549 N.W.2d 47	74
1996	Zeeland Farm Services, Inc v. Jbl Enterprises, Inc†	555 N.W.2d 733	72
2005	Clark v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.· Dissent†	706 N.W.2d 471	68
2004	People v. Hellstrom· Dissent†	690 N.W.2d 293	68
2004	People v. Galloway†	675 N.W.2d 883	67
2007	People v. Walker†	728 N.W.2d 902	64
2000	Cherry Growers, Inc. v. Agricultural Marketing & Bargaining Board†	610 N.W.2d 613	62
2004	People v. Moorer†	262 Mich. App. 64	61
2004	People v. Sands†	680 N.W.2d 500	57
1990	Stanton v. Dachille†	463 N.W.2d 479	54
2004	Grand Trunk Western Railroad v. Auto Warehousing Co.†	262 Mich. App. 345	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 213 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 Janet T. Neff on?: Janet T. Neff was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 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).