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 1989 / Served to 1996

Marilyn Kelly

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Marilyn Kelly was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–1996 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kelly authored 285 published opinions for the court (1988–1996), plus 48 dissents and 46 concurrences. Most cited: Huron Tool and Engineering Co. v. Precision Consulting Services, Inc. (227 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. 366 of these were attributed to Kelly 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
1995	Huron Tool and Engineering Co. v. Precision Consulting Services, Inc.†	532 N.W.2d 541	227
1992	Prysak v. R L Polk Co.· Concurrence†	483 N.W.2d 629	105
1995	Cummings v. Wayne County†	533 N.W.2d 13	89
1993	Libralter Plastics, Inc v. Chubb Group of Insurance Companies†	502 N.W.2d 742	86
1991	SSC Associates Ltd. Partnership v. General Retirement System· Dissent†	480 N.W.2d 275	84
1992	People v. Gonzales†	483 N.W.2d 458	74
1992	Meretta v. Peach†	491 N.W.2d 278	73
1994	Michaels v. Amway Corp.†	522 N.W.2d 703	72
1996	Beach v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance· Concurrence†	550 N.W.2d 580	69
1989	People v. Marji· Dissent†	447 N.W.2d 835	56
1995	Haberkorn v. Chrysler Corp.†	533 N.W.2d 373	52
1989	Department of Social Services v. Brewer†	446 N.W.2d 593	52
1995	People v. Granderson	538 N.W.2d 471	49
1992	In Re Toler†	484 N.W.2d 672	48
1994	People v. Hurst†	517 N.W.2d 858	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 379 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 Marilyn Kelly on?: Marilyn Kelly was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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7 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).