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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Supreme Court / Joined 1999 / Active

Stephen Markman

Justice, Michigan Supreme Court

Stephen Markman is a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Michigan Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Markman authored 366 published opinions for the court (1999–2019), plus 68 dissents and 56 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Lockridge (1,872 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. 202 of these were attributed to Markman 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
2015	People v. Lockridge· Dissent†	498 Mich. 358	1,872
2003	People v. Babcock	666 N.W.2d 231	930
2006	People v. Francisco	711 N.W.2d 44	820
2003	Klapp v. United Insurance Group Agency, Inc†	468 Mich. 459	660
2010	In Re Mason· Dissent†	782 N.W.2d 747	658
2008	Allison v. AEW CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLP	751 N.W.2d 8	508
2014	In re Sanders· Dissent†	495 Mich. 394	469
2007	People v. Smith	733 N.W.2d 351	408
2008	People v. Smith· Concurrence†	754 N.W.2d 284	356
2010	McCORMICK v. CARRIER· Dissent†	487 Mich. 180	340
2012	Titan Insurance Company v. Hyten†	491 Mich. 547	322
2004	People v. Kimble	684 N.W.2d 669	322
2012	Johnson v. Recca†	492 Mich. 169	306
2013	People of Michigan v. Stanley G Duncan· Concurrence†	494 Mich. 713	291
2006	People v. Gillis	712 N.W.2d 419	274

Showing the 15 most-cited of 490 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 is Stephen Markman on?: Stephen Markman is a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

Sources

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27 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).