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 1998 / Active

Kurtis Wilder

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Kurtis Wilder is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilder authored 155 published opinions for the court (1999–2016), plus 17 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: In re Moss (1,083 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. 183 of these were attributed to Wilder 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
2013	In re Moss· Concurrence†	301 Mich. App. 76	1,083
2004	People v. Matuszak†	687 N.W.2d 342	698
2008	People v. Horn	755 N.W.2d 212	500
2011	People v. Jackson†	292 Mich. App. 583	497
2002	People v. Davis†	649 N.W.2d 94	369
2014	People v. Gaines†	306 Mich. App. 289	364
2014	In re TK†	306 Mich. App. 698	322
2004	Derderian v. Genesys Health Care Systems†	689 N.W.2d 145	218
2005	People v. MacK†	695 N.W.2d 342	202
2007	Coates v. Bastian Brothers, Inc†	741 N.W.2d 539	175
2011	People v. Johnson· Concurrence†	293 Mich. App. 79	168
2016	In re Medina†	317 Mich. App. 219	164
2012	People v. Johnson†	298 Mich. App. 128	164
2010	Nuculovic v. Hill†	287 Mich. App. 58	135
2003	Gates v. Gates†	664 N.W.2d 231	135

Showing the 15 most-cited of 191 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 Kurtis Wilder on?: Kurtis Wilder is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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27 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).