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 1995 / Served to 2011

Richard A. Bandstra

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Richard A. Bandstra was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2011 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bandstra authored 155 published opinions for the court (1995–2010), plus 7 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Dixon (279 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. 169 of these were attributed to Bandstra 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	People v. Dixon· Concurrence†	688 N.W.2d 308	279
2002	Yee v. Shiawassee County Board of Commissioners†	651 N.W.2d 756	191
2004	People v. Eccles†	677 N.W.2d 76	153
2008	Jimkoski v. Shupe†	763 N.W.2d 1	137
1999	People v. Mayhew†	600 N.W.2d 370	137
2008	Johnson Family Ltd. Partnership v. White Pine Wireless, LLC†	761 N.W.2d 353	129
2000	People v. Williams†	616 N.W.2d 710	128
2003	Zdrojewski v. Murphy†	657 N.W.2d 721	109
1999	People v. Norris†	600 N.W.2d 658	106
2006	People v. Cox†	709 N.W.2d 152	101
1999	H J Tucker & Associates, Inc. v. Allied Chucker & Engineering Co.†	234 Mich. App. 550	91
2003	Ambs v. Kalamazoo County Road Commission†	662 N.W.2d 424	90
2002	Joyce v. Rubin	642 N.W.2d 360	82
2002	People v. Milstead	648 N.W.2d 648	69
2000	In Re Carey†	615 N.W.2d 742	68

Showing the 15 most-cited of 179 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 A. Bandstra on?: Richard A. Bandstra 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).