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 2012 / Active

Michael J. Riordan

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Michael J. Riordan is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Riordan authored 7 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Tamara Woodring v. Phoenix Insurance Company (183 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. 13 of these were attributed to Riordan 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
2018	Tamara Woodring v. Phoenix Insurance Company· Dissent†	923 N.W.2d 607	183
2018	In re Keillor†	923 N.W.2d 617	91
2018	Melissa Mays v. Governor Rick Snyder· Dissent†	916 N.W.2d 227	84
2016	Major v. Village of Newberry· Concurrence†	316 Mich. App. 527	73
2018	TM v. MZ†	926 N.W.2d 900	38
2012	Hammel v. Speaker of the House of Representatives†	297 Mich. App. 641	34
2014	Decker v. Trux R US, Inc†	307 Mich. App. 472	24
2012	People v. Lemons†	299 Mich. App. 541	23
2019	Law Offices of Jeffrey Sherbow, PC v. Fieger & Fieger, PC†	930 N.W.2d 416	17
2014	Attala v. Orcutt· Dissent†	306 Mich. App. 502	8
2013	Bureau of Health Professions v. Serven†	303 Mich. App. 305	4
2017	People of Michigan v. Virgil Smith· Dissent†	922 N.W.2d 615	2
2014	People v. Butler-Jackson· Concurrence†	307 Mich. App. 667	1

Showing the 13 most-cited of 13 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 J. Riordan on?: Michael J. Riordan is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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14 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).