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 1998

Maureen Pulte Reilly

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

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

Tenure: 1989–1998 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Reilly authored 88 published opinions for the court (1989–1998), plus 7 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Schollaert (135 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. 105 of these were attributed to Reilly 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. Schollaert†	486 N.W.2d 312	135
1992	Prysak v. R L Polk Co.†	483 N.W.2d 629	105
1994	Board of County Road Commissioners v. Schultz· Concurrence†	521 N.W.2d 847	102
1993	People v. Allen†	505 N.W.2d 869	99
1992	Altman v. Nelson†	495 N.W.2d 826	93
1991	SSC Associates Ltd. Partnership v. General Retirement System†	480 N.W.2d 275	84
1994	Michigan Mutual Insurance v. Dowell†	514 N.W.2d 185	55
1991	People v. Flowers†	477 N.W.2d 473	52
1993	Gillette Co. v. Department of Treasury†	497 N.W.2d 595	44
1991	People v. Sammons†	478 N.W.2d 901	44
1994	People v. Coulter†	517 N.W.2d 827	42
1993	People v. Wickham†	503 N.W.2d 701	41
1998	People v. Daoust†	228 Mich. App. 1	39
1995	Osman v. Summer Green Lawn Care, Inc	532 N.W.2d 186	39
1994	Smit v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance†	525 N.W.2d 528	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 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 Maureen Pulte Reilly on?: Maureen Pulte Reilly was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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9 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).