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 1992 / Served to 1999

Maura D. Corrigan

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Maura D. Corrigan was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–1999 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Corrigan authored 89 published opinions for the court (1992–1999), plus 6 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Lawton (155 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. 108 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
1992	People v. Lawton†	492 N.W.2d 810	155
1992	Kamalnath v. Mercy Memorial Hospital Corp.†	487 N.W.2d 499	120
1999	Head v. Phillips Camper Sales & Rental, Inc†	593 N.W.2d 595	80
1997	Sills v. Oakland General Hospital†	559 N.W.2d 348	78
1999	People v. Colon· Dissent†	591 N.W.2d 692	71
1993	Jones v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance†	509 N.W.2d 829	64
1994	People v. Hoffman†	518 N.W.2d 817	52
1993	Marcelletti v. Bathani†	500 N.W.2d 124	52
1994	People v. Rutherford· Concurrence†	526 N.W.2d 620	49
1999	Faircloth v. Family Independence Agency†	591 N.W.2d 314	48
1997	Sudul v. City of Hamtramck†	562 N.W.2d 478	48
1993	Kaufman & Payton, PC v. Nikkila†	503 N.W.2d 728	48
1998	South MacOmb Disposal Authority v. American Insurance†	572 N.W.2d 686	47
1997	Long v. Chelsea Community Hospital†	557 N.W.2d 157	46
1998	Featherston v. Steinhoff†	575 N.W.2d 6	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 109 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 Maura D. Corrigan on?: Maura D. Corrigan 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).