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 2001 / Served to 2007

Jessica R. Cooper

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Jessica R. Cooper was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2007 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cooper authored 46 published opinions for the court (1983–2007), plus 14 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Dixon (279 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. 55 of these were attributed to Cooper 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
2004	People v. Dixon†	688 N.W.2d 308	279
2005	People v. Wilkens· Concurrence†	705 N.W.2d 728	118
2006	People v. Cox· Dissent†	709 N.W.2d 152	101
2003	Liggett Restaurant Group, Inc. v. City of Pontiac†	260 Mich. App. 127	79
2007	People v. Carnicom· Concurrence†	727 N.W.2d 399	75
2004	People v. Fennell†	677 N.W.2d 66	75
2007	People v. Walker· Concurrence†	728 N.W.2d 902	64
2004	Hayley v. Allstate Insurance· Dissent†	262 Mich. App. 571	61
2004	Aichele v. Hodge· Dissent†	673 N.W.2d 452	55
2006	Dorman v. Township of Clinton†	714 N.W.2d 350	44
2006	Kendricks v. Rehfield†	716 N.W.2d 623	42
2004	Bragan v. Symanzik†	687 N.W.2d 881	38
2002	Tate v. Detroit Receiving Hospital†	642 N.W.2d 346	33
1983	Hatcher v. Hatcher	343 N.W.2d 498	33
2003	Young v. Sellers†	657 N.W.2d 555	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 70 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 Jessica R. Cooper on?: Jessica R. Cooper was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).