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 1991 / Served to 1995

Michael J. Connor

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Michael J. Connor was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–1995 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Connor authored 77 published opinions for the court (1991–1995), plus 9 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Stumpf (72 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. 87 of these were attributed to Connor 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. Stumpf†	492 N.W.2d 795	72
1992	Berryman v. K Mart Corp.†	483 N.W.2d 642	62
1993	Stanley v. Town Square Cooperative†	512 N.W.2d 51	52
1993	Kipka v. Fountain†	499 N.W.2d 363	51
1992	People v. Caulley†	494 N.W.2d 853	50
1993	Kaufman & Payton, PC v. Nikkila· Dissent†	503 N.W.2d 728	48
1992	People v. Brannon†	486 N.W.2d 83	43
1995	Haworth, Inc. v. Wickes Manufacturing Co.†	532 N.W.2d 903	42
1992	Knight v. Gulf & Western Properties, Inc	492 N.W.2d 761	40
1992	Harris v. City of Allen Park†	483 N.W.2d 434	37
1992	Trout Unlimited, Muskegon-White River Chapter v. City of White Cloud	489 N.W.2d 188	31
1995	People v. McCray†	533 N.W.2d 359	29
1992	People v. Chambers†	489 N.W.2d 168	28
1992	Larson v. Auto-Owners Insurance†	486 N.W.2d 128	27
1992	Cherry v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance†	489 N.W.2d 788	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 94 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 Michael J. Connor on?: Michael J. Connor was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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4 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).