How do judges of the Michigan Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1975 / Served to 1976

Lawrence Lindemer

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Lawrence Lindemer was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1921 · age 105
Tenure: 1975–1976 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lindemer authored 23 published opinions for the court (1975–1976), plus 13 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Garcia (357 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. 17 of these were attributed to Lindemer 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
1976	People v. Garcia	247 N.W.2d 547	357
1976	Hi-Way Motor Co. v. International Harvester Co.	247 N.W.2d 813	312
1975	People v. Chamblis· Dissent†	236 N.W.2d 473	270
1976	People v. Anderson	247 N.W.2d 857	187
1976	People v. Hall	242 N.W.2d 377	162
1976	Zeni v. Anderson· Dissent†	243 N.W.2d 270	133
1976	People v. Martin· Dissent†	247 N.W.2d 303	120
1976	People v. Cooper	247 N.W.2d 866	82
1976	Tom Thomas Organization, Inc. v. Reliance Insurance· Dissent†	242 N.W.2d 396	77
1976	Kar v. Hogan	251 N.W.2d 77	76
1976	People v. Carroll	240 N.W.2d 722	72
1975	People v. Luther	232 N.W.2d 184	59
1976	McNitt v. Citco Drilling Co.· Dissent†	245 N.W.2d 18	44
1975	People v. Nicholson· Concurrence†	395 Mich. 96	37
1975	People v. Burden· Concurrence†	236 N.W.2d 505	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Lawrence Lindemer on?: Lawrence Lindemer was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year on the Michigan Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).