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 1991

Richard M. Maher

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Richard M. Maher was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1975–1991 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Maher authored 275 published opinions for the court (1975–1991), plus 64 dissents and 45 concurrences. Most cited: Detroit Edison Co. v. Michigan Mutual Insurance (151 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. 248 of these were attributed to Maher 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
1980	Detroit Edison Co. v. Michigan Mutual Insurance	301 N.W.2d 832	151
1984	People v. Wise†	351 N.W.2d 255	88
1979	Shinabarger v. Citizens Mutual Insurance†	282 N.W.2d 301	82
1983	Davis v. Lhim†	335 N.W.2d 481	80
1981	Liddell v. Detroit Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange†	302 N.W.2d 260	61
1988	People v. Oliver· Dissent†	427 N.W.2d 898	56
1976	McKendrick v. Petrucci†	247 N.W.2d 349	51
1991	In Re Waite†	468 N.W.2d 912	50
1980	Peeples v. City of Detroit†	297 N.W.2d 839	48
1980	Lorenz Supply Co. v. American Standard, Inc.	300 N.W.2d 335	43
1977	Nichols v. Ann Arbor Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n†	250 N.W.2d 804	43
1976	People v. Stanley†	243 N.W.2d 684	43
1989	People v. Rushlow· Concurrence†	445 N.W.2d 222	42
1983	Bonney v. the Upjohn Company†	342 N.W.2d 551	42
1979	Whitmore v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.†	279 N.W.2d 318	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 384 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 M. Maher on?: Richard M. Maher 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).