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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1996 / Served to 2011

Maura D. Corrigan

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Maura D. Corrigan was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 1996–2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Marygrove College
University of Detroit Mercy

Judicial Record

In our data, Corrigan authored 317 published opinions for the court (1999–2011), plus 33 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Carines (3,769 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. 81 of these were attributed to Corrigan 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
1999	People v. Carines	597 N.W.2d 130	3,769
1999	Maiden v. Rozwood	597 N.W.2d 817	2,570
2003	People v. Babcock· Concurrence†	666 N.W.2d 231	930
2006	People v. Francisco· Dissent†	711 N.W.2d 44	820
2000	People v. Nowack	614 N.W.2d 78	817
2001	People v. Carbin	623 N.W.2d 884	713
2000	Robinson v. City of Detroit· Concurrence†	613 N.W.2d 307	662
2010	In Re Mason	782 N.W.2d 747	658
2006	Maldonado v. Ford Motor Co.	719 N.W.2d 809	538
2008	Allison v. AEW CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLP· Concurrence†	751 N.W.2d 8	508
1999	Sun Valley Foods Co. v. Ward	596 N.W.2d 119	475
2008	Smith v. Khouri· Concurrence†	751 N.W.2d 472	455
2000	People v. Sabin	614 N.W.2d 888	425
2002	Pohutski v. City of Allen Park	641 N.W.2d 219	403
2009	People v. McGraw· Dissent†	771 N.W.2d 655	392

Showing the 15 most-cited of 386 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 Maura D. Corrigan on?: Maura D. Corrigan was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 years 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).