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 1999 / Served to 2001

Jeffrey G. Collins

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Jeffrey G. Collins was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2001 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Collins authored 9 published opinions for the court (1999–2001), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: People v. Noble (197 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. 10 of these were attributed to Collins 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
2000	People v. Noble†	608 N.W.2d 123	197
2001	People v. McCray†	630 N.W.2d 633	118
2000	Churchman v. Richerson†	611 N.W.2d 333	84
2000	Kokx v. Bylenga†	617 N.W.2d 368	40
2001	In Re TM†	628 N.W.2d 570	32
2001	MacKenzie v. Wales Township†	635 N.W.2d 335	17
2001	Wilhelm v. Mustafa†	624 N.W.2d 435	8
2001	Stone v. State· Dissent†	638 N.W.2d 417	6
2000	Mattison v. Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital†	620 N.W.2d 313	6
1999	Entingh v. Grooters†	600 N.W.2d 415	1

Showing the 10 most-cited of 10 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 Jeffrey G. Collins on?: Jeffrey G. Collins was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

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2 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).