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 2015 / Active

Michael F. Gadola

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Michael F. Gadola is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gadola authored 21 published opinions for the court (2015–2018), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: In re Payne/Pumphrey/Fortson (161 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. 22 of these were attributed to Gadola 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
2015	In re Payne/Pumphrey/Fortson†	311 Mich. App. 49	161
2017	People of Michigan v. Jason Charles Robar†	910 N.W.2d 328	52
2015	Ford Motor Company v. Department of Treasury†	313 Mich. App. 572	43
2018	People of Michigan v. Benjamin Keith McKewen· Dissent†	926 N.W.2d 888	40
2015	Trahey v. City of Inkster†	311 Mich. App. 582	37
2018	Loretta Gayle Galea v. Fca US LLC†	917 N.W.2d 694	36
2015	Harper Woods Retirees Association v. City of Harper Woods†	312 Mich. App. 500	36
2018	Martha Cares Olsen v. Chikaming Township†	924 N.W.2d 889	33
2016	People v. Bush†	315 Mich. App. 237	31
2018	Tomra of North America Inc v. Department of Treasury†	926 N.W.2d 259	29
2016	Grosse Pointe Law Firm, PC v. Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC†	317 Mich. App. 395	15
2016	in Re Application of Consumers Energy to Increase Electric Rates†	316 Mich. App. 231	14
2015	People v. Juntikka†	310 Mich. App. 306	14
2015	Teddy 23, LLC v. Michigan Film Office†	313 Mich. App. 557	13
2016	Measel v. Auto Club Group Insurance Company†	314 Mich. App. 320	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 Michael F. Gadola on?: Michael F. Gadola is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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11 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).