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 1999 / Active

Patrick M. Meter

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Patrick M. Meter is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Meter authored 70 published opinions for the court (2000–2018), plus 13 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Watson (555 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. 91 of these were attributed to Meter 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
2001	People v. Watson†	629 N.W.2d 411	555
2002	People v. Kurr†	654 N.W.2d 651	159
2000	Kern v. Blethen-Coluni· Concurrence†	612 N.W.2d 838	156
2004	Blazer Foods, Inc v. Restaurant Properties, Inc†	673 N.W.2d 805	126
2009	People v. Anderson†	772 N.W.2d 792	87
2002	People v. Harmon†	640 N.W.2d 314	84
2000	People v. Nunez†	619 N.W.2d 550	84
2007	Chapin v. a & L PARTS, INC.· Concurrence†	732 N.W.2d 578	78
2000	People v. Brown†	610 N.W.2d 234	78
2010	People v. Redden†	290 Mich. App. 65	69
2013	People v. Cortez†	299 Mich. App. 679	66
2009	Campbell v. Department of Human Services†	780 N.W.2d 586	59
2016	People v. Hyatt· Concurrence†	316 Mich. App. 368	57
2004	Tingley v. Kortz· Dissent†	688 N.W.2d 291	57
2007	People v. Bell†	276 Mich. App. 342	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 94 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 Patrick M. Meter on?: Patrick M. Meter is a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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27 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).