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 1986 / Served to 1992

Jospeh B. Sullivan

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Jospeh B. Sullivan was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–1992 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sullivan authored 78 published opinions for the court (1968–1992), plus 9 dissents. Most cited: People v. McKinley (42 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. 53 of these were attributed to Sullivan 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
1988	People v. McKinley	425 N.W.2d 460	42
1991	Mann v. Mann†	476 N.W.2d 439	35
1987	Wilson v. Acacia Park Cemetery Ass'n	413 N.W.2d 79	30
1992	People v. Chambers· Dissent†	489 N.W.2d 168	28
1992	Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance v. ACO, Inc.†	484 N.W.2d 718	28
1991	People v. Johnson†	477 N.W.2d 426	27
1986	People v. Dalton†	400 N.W.2d 689	27
1992	People v. Fisher†	483 N.W.2d 452	26
1987	Walloon Lake Water System, Inc v. Melrose Township†	415 N.W.2d 292	26
1987	Dickerson v. Nichols	409 N.W.2d 741	26
1991	People v. Guenther†	469 N.W.2d 59	25
1986	Furby v. Raymark Industries, Inc†	397 N.W.2d 303	25
1991	Zerillo v. Dyksterhouse†	477 N.W.2d 117	24
1987	Michigan Humane Society v. Natural Resources Commission	404 N.W.2d 757	23
1986	Christner v. ANDERSON, NIETZKE & COMPANY, PC†	401 N.W.2d 641	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 87 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 Jospeh B. Sullivan on?: Jospeh B. Sullivan 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).