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 1975 / Served to 1982

Nathan J. Kaufman

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Nathan J. Kaufman was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1975–1982 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kaufman authored 220 published opinions for the court (1967–1984), plus 50 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: Ledsinger v. Burmeister (85 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. 267 of these were attributed to Kaufman 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
1982	Ledsinger v. Burmeister†	318 N.W.2d 558	85
1976	Warren v. June's Mobile Home Village & Sales, Inc.†	239 N.W.2d 380	76
1975	People v. Christensen· Dissent†	235 N.W.2d 50	61
1975	McNabb v. Green Real Estate Co.†	233 N.W.2d 811	58
1968	People v. Hernandez	170 N.W.2d 851	58
1978	People v. Walter Johnson· Dissent†	272 N.W.2d 605	52
1982	Dunn v. Lederle Laboratories†	328 N.W.2d 576	48
1981	People v. Rocha†	312 N.W.2d 657	42
1979	Brooks v. Reed· Dissent†	286 N.W.2d 81	42
1975	Jones v. Morgan†	228 N.W.2d 419	42
1976	Minster MacHine Co. v. Diamond Stamping Co.†	248 N.W.2d 676	40
1975	People v. Karasek· Dissent†	234 N.W.2d 761	39
1975	Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange v. Ayvazian†	233 N.W.2d 200	38
1979	Darin & Armstrong v. Ben Agree Co.†	276 N.W.2d 869	37
1982	Romeo v. Van Otterloo†	323 N.W.2d 693	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 306 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 Nathan J. Kaufman on?: Nathan J. Kaufman was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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7 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).