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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 1983 / Served to 2000

Roman S. Gribbs

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Roman S. Gribbs was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–2000 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gribbs authored 128 published opinions for the court (1983–2000), plus 7 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Foodland Distributors v. Al-Naimi (84 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 Gribbs 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
1997	Foodland Distributors v. Al-Naimi	559 N.W.2d 379	84
1993	Brownell v. Garber· Dissent†	503 N.W.2d 81	51
1987	Pierce v. Pierce†	412 N.W.2d 291	40
1998	Traxler v. Ford Motor Co.· Concurrence†	576 N.W.2d 398	38
1983	Martin v. Michigan	341 N.W.2d 239	37
1998	Sparling Plastic Industries, Inc. v. Sparling· Concurrence†	583 N.W.2d 232	36
1985	Whitcraft v. Wolfe	384 N.W.2d 400	35
1985	People v. Ridley	369 N.W.2d 274	35
1992	Couch v. Schultz†	483 N.W.2d 684	33
1995	Ireland v. Smith†	542 N.W.2d 344	32
1994	Coleman-Nichols v. Tixon Corp.	513 N.W.2d 441	32
1992	Mull v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States· Dissent†	493 N.W.2d 447	32
1983	Luick v. Rademacher	342 N.W.2d 617	30
1988	People v. Burhans†	421 N.W.2d 285	28
1987	Houston v. Southwest Detroit Hospital	420 N.W.2d 835	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 143 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 Roman S. Gribbs on?: Roman S. Gribbs was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).