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 1989 / Served to 2005

Richard Allen Griffin

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Richard Allen Griffin was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2005 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Griffin authored 213 published opinions for the court (1989–2005), plus 38 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Sabin (517 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. 272 of these were attributed to Griffin 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
2000	People v. Sabin†	620 N.W.2d 19	517
1998	People v. Kelly†	588 N.W.2d 480	481
2005	In Re BZ†	690 N.W.2d 505	435
2005	People v. Brown†	267 Mich. App. 141	244
2000	Kern v. Blethen-Coluni†	612 N.W.2d 838	156
1995	People v. Haywood†	530 N.W.2d 497	150
1999	People v. Rice†	597 N.W.2d 843	148
2000	In Re Ayres†	608 N.W.2d 132	112
1997	People v. Hoffman†	570 N.W.2d 146	73
2002	Evans & Luptak, PLC v. Lizza†	650 N.W.2d 364	72
2001	People v. Beuschlein†	630 N.W.2d 921	71
1994	People v. White†	527 N.W.2d 34	70
2001	Karbel v. Comerica Bank†	635 N.W.2d 69	64
2003	People v. Witherspoon†	670 N.W.2d 434	62
1995	Porter v. City of Royal Oak†	542 N.W.2d 905	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 272 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 Richard Allen Griffin on?: Richard Allen Griffin 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).