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 1969 / Served to 1986

S Jerome Bronson

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

S Jerome Bronson was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1986 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bronson authored 589 published opinions for the court (1969–1987), plus 66 dissents and 56 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Wallach (71 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. 509 of these were attributed to Bronson 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
1981	People v. Wallach†	312 N.W.2d 387	71
1981	Schwartz v. Michigan Sugar Co.· Concurrence†	308 N.W.2d 459	67
1975	Ambrose v. the Detroit Edison Co.†	237 N.W.2d 520	67
1973	Topps-Toeller, Inc v. City of Lansing†	209 N.W.2d 843	60
1972	Gamet v. Jenks†	197 N.W.2d 160	58
1981	People v. Gonzales†	310 N.W.2d 306	57
1976	Pippen v. Denison Division of Abex Corp.†	239 N.W.2d 704	57
1973	Sponick v. Detroit Police Department	211 N.W.2d 674	56
1981	Gaston v. Becker†	314 N.W.2d 728	55
1981	Morris v. Metriyakool· Concurrence†	309 N.W.2d 910	54
1977	People v. Thompson	257 N.W.2d 268	53
1975	Van Buren Public School District v. Wayne Circuit Judge†	61 Mich. App. 6	53
1985	Moorhouse v. Ambassador Insurance	383 N.W.2d 219	52
1975	Williams v. Detroit Edison Co.· Concurrence†	234 N.W.2d 702	51
1982	Boyd v. Boyd†	323 N.W.2d 553	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 711 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 S Jerome Bronson on?: S Jerome Bronson 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).