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 1998 / Active

Michael Talbot

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Michael Talbot is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals (30 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Georgetown University
University of Detroit Mercy

Judicial Record

In our data, Talbot authored 70 published opinions for the court (1998–2018), plus 7 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Walsh v. Taylor (349 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. 84 of these were attributed to Talbot 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
2004	Walsh v. Taylor†	689 N.W.2d 506	349
2011	People v. Strickland†	293 Mich. App. 393	183
2015	People v. Stokes†	312 Mich. App. 181	115
2012	People v. Waterstone· Concurrence†	296 Mich. App. 121	104
2015	Dell v. Citizens Insurance Company of America†	312 Mich. App. 734	100
1998	People v. Gadomski†	592 N.W.2d 75	91
1999	Candelaria v. B C General Contractors, Inc†	600 N.W.2d 348	68
2011	Snead v. John Carlo, Inc.· Concurrence†	294 Mich. App. 343	67
2007	People v. Farquharson· Concurrence†	731 N.W.2d 797	67
2008	City of Huntington Woods v. City of Detroit†	761 N.W.2d 127	63
2012	Brecht v. Hendry· Concurrence†	297 Mich. App. 732	62
2010	People v. Williams†	288 Mich. App. 67	56
2000	People v. Layher†	607 N.W.2d 91	54
2003	Higgins Lake Property Owners Ass'n v. Gerrish Township†	662 N.W.2d 387	53
2011	Reed Estate v. Reed†	293 Mich. App. 168	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 86 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 Talbot on?: Michael Talbot is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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28 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).