How do judges of the Michigan Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1987 / Served to 1994

Robert P. Griffin

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Robert P. Griffin was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1923 · age 103
Tenure: 1987–1994 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Central Michigan University

Judicial Record

In our data, Griffin authored 67 published opinions for the court (1987–1994), plus 29 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Wolfe (920 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. 50 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
1992	People v. Wolfe	489 N.W.2d 748	920
1993	Radtke v. Everett· Dissent†	501 N.W.2d 155	347
1989	In Re Miller	445 N.W.2d 161	339
1994	Fletcher v. Fletcher· Concurrence†	526 N.W.2d 889	305
1993	People v. Kurylczyk	505 N.W.2d 528	259
1994	Peterman v. Department of Natural Resources· Concurrence†	521 N.W.2d 499	247
1993	House Speaker v. State Administrative Board	495 N.W.2d 539	244
1990	People v. Gates	452 N.W.2d 627	210
1988	People v. Cipriano	429 N.W.2d 781	209
1992	Neibarger v. Universal Coopertives, Inc.	486 N.W.2d 612	199
1992	Lorencz v. Ford Motor Co.· Dissent†	483 N.W.2d 844	189
1994	Marquis v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity	513 N.W.2d 799	169
1994	People v. Hana	524 N.W.2d 682	149
1993	Schultz v. Consumers Power Co.· Dissent†	506 N.W.2d 175	135
1994	Paschke v. Retool Industries· Dissent†	519 N.W.2d 441	130

Showing the 15 most-cited of 111 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 Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Robert P. Griffin on?: Robert P. Griffin was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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7 years on the Michigan Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).