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 2012 / Active

Mark T. Boonstra

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Mark T. Boonstra is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boonstra authored 51 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 3 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: People of Michigan v. Dawn Marie Dixon-Bey (446 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. 63 of these were attributed to Boonstra 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
2017	People of Michigan v. Dawn Marie Dixon-Bey· Concurrence†	909 N.W.2d 458	446
2015	People v. Bosca†	310 Mich. App. 1	332
2015	People v. Jackson (On Reconsideration)†	313 Mich. App. 409	302
2014	People v. Henry· Concurrence†	305 Mich. App. 127	259
2017	People of Michigan v. Vicki Renee Dickinson†	909 N.W.2d 24	191
2019	People of Michigan v. David Joseph Miller†	929 N.W.2d 821	181
2015	People v. Konopka (On Remand)†	309 Mich. App. 345	161
2015	Demski v. Petlick†	309 Mich. App. 404	147
2013	McLean v. City of Dearborn†	302 Mich. App. 68	97
2013	People v. Kosik†	303 Mich. App. 146	95
2014	People v. Woolfolk†	304 Mich. App. 450	90
2013	Clohset v. No Name Corp.†	302 Mich. App. 550	82
2013	Souden v. Souden†	303 Mich. App. 406	81
2015	Kyocera Corp. v. Hemlock Semiconductor, LLC†	313 Mich. App. 437	73
2014	Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Null†	304 Mich. App. 508	73

Showing the 15 most-cited of 63 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 Mark T. Boonstra on?: Mark T. Boonstra is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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14 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).