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 1965 / Served to 1976

Louis D. McGregor

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Louis D. McGregor was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1976 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McGregor authored 478 published opinions for the court (1965–1997), plus 11 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Erb (69 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. 275 of these were attributed to McGregor 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
1973	People v. Erb	211 N.W.2d 51	69
1975	People v. Christensen†	235 N.W.2d 50	61
1968	People v. Hernandez· Concurrence†	170 N.W.2d 851	58
1973	Thaut v. Finley†	213 N.W.2d 820	46
1972	People v. Jablonski†	195 N.W.2d 777	45
1994	Michigan Mutual Liability Co. v. Karsten	163 N.W.2d 670	41
1976	People v. Lerma†	239 N.W.2d 424	40
1975	People v. Parks†	226 N.W.2d 710	40
1975	People v. Karasek†	234 N.W.2d 761	39
1967	Branum v. Board of Regents of University	145 N.W.2d 860	37
1974	People v. Sparks	220 N.W.2d 153	35
1974	People v. Gilbert	222 N.W.2d 305	34
1974	People v. Koehler	221 N.W.2d 398	33
1974	Kubik, Inc. v. Hull†	224 N.W.2d 80	30
1968	People v. Jenkins	159 N.W.2d 225	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 492 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 Louis D. McGregor on?: Louis D. McGregor was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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11 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).