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 1982 / Served to 1998

Myron H. Wahls

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Myron H. Wahls was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–1998 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wahls authored 191 published opinions for the court (1982–1998), plus 13 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Phinney v. Perlmutter (160 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. 143 of these were attributed to Wahls 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
1997	Phinney v. Perlmutter†	564 N.W.2d 532	160
1996	People v. McElhaney†	545 N.W.2d 18	110
1995	Phillips v. Deihm†	541 N.W.2d 566	96
1993	People v. Adamski†	497 N.W.2d 546	93
1987	Atkinson v. Atkinson†	408 N.W.2d 516	87
1991	People v. Armendarez†	468 N.W.2d 893	73
1998	People v. Robinson· Dissent†	575 N.W.2d 784	54
1993	Stanley v. Town Square Cooperative· Concurrence†	512 N.W.2d 51	52
1990	People v. Hackney· Dissent†	455 N.W.2d 358	48
1984	Illinois Employers Insurance v. Dragovich· Dissent†	362 N.W.2d 767	44
1996	People v. Eloby†	547 N.W.2d 48	42
1994	People v. Coulter· Dissent†	517 N.W.2d 827	42
1992	Detroit Board of Education v. Celotex Corp.†	493 N.W.2d 513	41
1989	Groulx v. Carlson†	440 N.W.2d 644	39
1998	Traxler v. Ford Motor Co.†	576 N.W.2d 398	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 211 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 Myron H. Wahls on?: Myron H. Wahls was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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16 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).